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* ''VideoGame/{{Deepwoken}]'': Anyone who dies in the Depths, which is described as a purgatory of souls, will end up in the Fragments of Self, which is said to be one's one collective consciousness before it all drowns. In-game, players who end up here can either buy a Drowned Favor for 1000 Robux or wipe their character, earning Echoes for every possible Truimph they did so that it can be used for Echo Upgrades or passing down Soulbound items.

* In the penultimate episode of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', after seeing everyone in the real Good Place being so bored of paradise, Team Cockroach creates a passageway they can go through when people in the Good Place feel like they've had their fill. In the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:three of the original four humans go through the door, after finding their own fulfillments. What happens to them afterward is kept ambiguous.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': Subverted; the damned become demons in Hell, and they're near-unkillable. One of the only methods of [[DeaderThanDead destroying a demon's soul]] is with [[HolyIsNotSafe angelic weaponry (and psycho angels)]], but their infernal essence is absorbed by Hell itself (though what that actually means is currently unknown). In the pilot, Angel Dust laughs off Vaggie's threats towards him by pointing out he's already dead, so what's she gonna do, send him to double-Hell?

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItPDoHk1Ifk "Super Heaven,"]] Jesus files a complaint to {{God}} about how impractical TheGrimReaper (both in his appearance and [[{{Pun}} execution]] of his job) after he unceremoniously reaps an old lady. When that old lady is asked her opinion, she says that she finds that death is scary enough without a skeleton coming at her as she does so, prompting the Grim Reaper to reap her ''in Heaven''. When Jesus questions this, God remarks that this means that she has now gone to Super-Heaven. It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, as the old lady is seen riding a motorcycle and shredding a guitar, while stating Super-Heaven is awesome.

* The Empty from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is established as a void devoid of anything, having existed since before God created the known universe and the various afterlives that accompany it. Aside from housing the Shadow (a rather spiteful primordial entity that predates the existence of God, his sister and Death), the Empty also acts as an afterlife for Angels (who mainly reside in Heaven) and Demons (who are established as being [[spoiler:human souls who were sent to Hell and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil tortured]] [[DemonOfHumanOrigin into demonhood]]]]) go when they die where they sleep for all of eternity.

* ''Film/WristcuttersALoveStory'' is set in an afterlife for people who kill themselves which is like a slightly worse version of Earth. The denizens are scared to kill themselves again incase they end up in a worse afterlife.

* In ''AFTERLIFE'' by Marcus Sakey, there is a whole string of afterlives, the first one being [[MundaneAfterlife a sort of shadow version of the real world,]] and each later one being more washed out and lifeless than the last. Dying in one afterlife moves you to a lower one, until you end up in the very last - a featureless grey plain where the souls of the dead shuffle towards a final oblivion.
* In Hal Duncan's ''Literature/EscapeFromHell'', Hell is just more of all the worst parts of the real world ([[AuthorOnBoard or the parts that the author thinks are worst, at least]]), and people can and do die there - indeed, keeping people fearing for their lives is part of the torment. At one point Lucifer is asked how that's even possible, but he just shrugs it off by saying that if you're still walking and talking, you're not as dead as you could be.
* In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', heroes who reach [[{{Heaven}} Elysium]] can choose to be reincarnated. If they achieve Elysium three times in a row, they can enter the best part of Elysium, the Isles of the Blest.

* In the video game based on ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'', Madam Leota explains that one of her jobs is protecting the ghosts; if something happens to one, they go from the Afterlife to "the Afterdeath", which judging by some of her descriptions is essentially Hell.

* In the penultimate episode of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', after seeing everyone in the real Good Place being so bored of paradise, Team Cockroach creates a passageway they can go through when people in the Good Place feel like they've had their fill. In the SeriesFinale, [[spoiler:the original four humans go through the door, after finding their own fulfillments. What happens to them afterward is kept ambiguous.]]

* One form of Spiritualism argues that when the soul of a deceased person passes onto the spiritual plane, this is called the First Death. The soul then undergoes challenges and evaluation based on their personality during their earthly life and how well they dealt with its challenges and temptations. This first afterlife is spent in a sort of Heaven which is familar to them from their earthly life and is used for rest, recuperation, and self-reflection. the John Smith who dies remains John Smith here. Until, that is, the time comes for the Second Death and ascension to a higher plane of the Afterlife. In this Second Death, the personality of "John Smith" is stripped away and the true underlying soul emerges. The True Soul can then decide whether to remain or to re-enter the material plane in another earthly persona (reincarnation). [[note]]This concept was discussed in Magazine/ForteanTimes (FT411)[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Apparently the case with "the Final Death," according to the director Lee Unkrich in [[https://www.npr.org/2018/01/10/577012780/coco-filmmakers-explore-the-connection-to-loved-ones-past an interview]]:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' two-parter "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?"/"Probably", Saddam Hussein and Satan's new pussy boyfriend, Chris, who are both already in Hell, keep killing each other, and, as a result, keep ending up back in Hell. When Satan finally has enough, [[spoiler:he banishes Hussein to Heaven, which is occupied by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.]]

-> '''Jesus:''' You can't die in Heaven! Dad, tell him!
-> '''God:''' Actually, you can. You see if you die in Heaven, you go to ''Super''-Heaven.
-> '''Jesus:''' What?!

Some argue that life on Earth only has meaning if it continues on after it has ended. Whether it is eternity of bliss in {{Heaven}} or damnation in {{Hell}}, the soul lives on once the body has perished. But if the afterlife gives meaning to life, then where does meaning in the Afterlife come from? In most cases, the soul is unable to die in the afterlife, either [[NighInvulnerability being indestructible to all attempts at destruction]] or [[AndIMustScream is forced to remain active and aware no matter how many chunks are hacked off]]. In the off-chance that the soul ''is'' left DeaderThanDead, then it moves onto the Afterafterlife.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Apparently the case with "the Final Death," according to the director Lee Unkrich in [[https://www.npr.org/2018/01/10/577012780/coco-filmmakers-explore-the-connection-to-loved-ones-past an interview]].

* In ''AFTERLIFE'' by Marcus Sakey, there is a whole string of afterlives, the first one being [[MundaneAfterlife a sort of shadow version of the real world,]] and each later one being more washed out and lifeless than the last. Dying in one afterlife moves you to a lower one, until you end up in the very last - an featureless grey plain where the souls of the dead shuffle towards a final oblivion.

* One form of Spiritualism argues that when the soul of a deceased person passes onto the spiritual plane, this is called the First Death. The soul then undergoes challenges and evaluation based on their personality during their earthly life and how well they dealt with its challenges and temptations. This first afterlife is spent in a sort of Heaven which is familar to them from their earthly life and is used for rest, recuperation and self-reflection. the John Smith who dies remains John Smith here. Until, that is, the time comes for the Second Death and ascension to a higher plane of the Afterlife. In this Second Death, the personality of "John Smith" is stripped away and the true underlying soul emerges. The True Soul can then decide whether to remain or to re-enter the material plane in another earthly persona (reincarnation). [[note]]This concept was discussed in Magazine/ForteanTimes (FT411)[[/note]]

** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODetOE6cbbc "God's God,"]] Yahweh is mocking a freshly-dead atheist for not believing in him, only for Jeffrey to accuse him of being an atheist because he does not believe that someone might have intelligently designed him. Unable to come up with a response, he quickly kills Jeffrey, only for Jeffrey to kill him with a gun at the same time. They end up ascending to a different Heaven where they encounter a being claiming to be the god who created Yahweh. [[MoralMyopia Yahweh complains about the various unfair scrutinies he himself has held to his own creations]]. They all eventually kill each other, ascending to a higher-leveled Heaven to meet another god and so on and so on. Eventually, the various Gods and their helpers end up on Earth where they encounter a normal human man who claims to have made all the gods.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Stan's guardian angel is replaced by a new guy, who explains his old angel died, and went to ''Super-Heaven''.
--> '''Angel:''' [[FlatEarthAtheist If you believe in this sort of thing, not everyone does...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Apparently the case with "the Final Death," according to the director Lee Unkrich in an interview [https://www.npr.org/2018/01/10/577012780/coco-filmmakers-explore-the-connection-to-loved-ones-past].