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This one of many ways to depict {{Hell}}, since isolation isn't exactly peachy. A step below PurgatoryAndLimbo, within which, bleak or dull though it may be, at least there's ''something''. A possible explanation for DeathAmnesia, and a possible destination for those who are BarredFromTheAfterlife. Compare VoidBetweenTheWorlds, another type of empty dimension. See also WhiteVoidRoom, which may be the easiest visual way to depict the Nothingness. A frequent purpose for people who try to build an ArtificialAfterlife is to avoid this or the CessationOfExistence.

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This is one of many ways to depict {{Hell}}, since isolation isn't exactly peachy. A step below PurgatoryAndLimbo, within which, bleak or dull though it may be, at least there's ''something''. A possible explanation for DeathAmnesia, and a possible destination for those who are BarredFromTheAfterlife. Compare VoidBetweenTheWorlds, another type of empty dimension. See also WhiteVoidRoom, which may be the easiest visual way to depict the Nothingness. A frequent purpose for people who try to build an ArtificialAfterlife is to avoid this or the CessationOfExistence.
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* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' features the Fields of Asphodel from Greek mythology, where people who are neither good nor evil enough (which is basically the vast majority of people on Earth) are sent to after death. Hazel Levesque spent over 70 years here after her first death, because she made an offer to ease her evil mother's punishment; Hazel was originally destined for Elysium, while her mother was destined for the Fields of Punishment. Hazel doesn't seem to be too affected by it, since [[NarniaTime it's hard to measure time in the Underworld]], though there is nothing to do except walk and walk forever.
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* In ''Manga/TheWitchAndTheBeast'', all souls are bound in a cycle of {{reincarnation}}. When a necromancer raises a zombie, the soul is forcibly drawn back into the body which permanently severs them from the cycle. On their second death, they will instead enter the Void, an empty plane where the soul will exist alone, its mind aware enough to perceive itself but unable to do anything else for all eternity.
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* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' introduces the Final World, a purgatory where the hearts of people who still have some ties to the mortal realm gather seemingly forever, unable to pass on. That's not this trope. What ''is'' this trope is that Chirithy clarifies that the Final World is the last stop before the actual void of death in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' universe.
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* Played for laughs, as with everything else, on Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}'s "You Are Dead" article.
-->''"Remember how, when you were alive, you wasted hours and hours watching daytime (and probably night-time) television? Well, this is exactly like that, except without the television. And without the day and night. And without time"''.

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%%* A more metaphorical example occurs in the short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4&feature=youtu.be Dining Room]] [[EitherOrTitle or]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin There is Nothing]]'' according WordOfGod.
* Played for laughs, as with everything else, on Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}'s "You Are Dead" article.
-->''"Remember how, when you were alive, you wasted hours
''WebAnimation/TheSagaOfBiorn'': This is the fate that the old Viking warrior Biorn wants to avoid, determined to die in glorious battle and hours watching daytime (and probably night-time) television? Well, this go to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] rather than die of old age and go to the blank, featureless Helheim, where the souls of the dead stand around doing absolutely nothing, bored out of their minds. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the nuns he saved during the battle that killed him give him a Christian burial, which acts as a PostMortemConversion and sends him to FluffyCloudHeaven instead... [[HellOfAHeaven which is exactly like that, Helheim]] except without the television. And without the day fluffier and night. And without time"''.cloudier (and full of nuns).]]



*** An apparently significant phrase in the article, [[spoiler:[[YourMindMakesItReal "Belief is the key"]]]] suggests an alternate, more uncomfortable possibility. [[spoiler:What happened to the resurrected 05 [[HopeSpot may ''not'' be the default afterlife for all human beings]]. Just [[SelfInflictedHell those who learn about it]] by, say, reading about his experience]].
* A more metaphorical example occurs in the short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4&feature=youtu.be Dining Room]] [[EitherOrTitle or]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin There is Nothing]]'' according WordOfGod.
* ''WebAnimation/TheSagaOfBiorn'': This is the fate that the old Viking warrior Biorn wants to avoid, determined to die in glorious battle and go to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] rather than die of old age and go to the blank, featureless Helheim, where the souls of the dead stand around doing absolutely nothing, bored out of their minds. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the nuns he saved during the battle that killed him give him a Christian burial, which acts as a PostMortemConversion and sends him to FluffyCloudHeaven instead... [[HellOfAHeaven which is exactly like Helheim]] except fluffier and cloudier (and full of nuns).]]
* PlayedForLaughs in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG3IrsR5jTc video from]] ''LetsPlay/TomFawkes''.

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*** An apparently significant phrase in the article, [[spoiler:[[YourMindMakesItReal "Belief [[spoiler:"[[YourMindMakesItReal Belief is the key"]]]] key]]"]] suggests an alternate, more uncomfortable possibility. [[spoiler:What happened to the resurrected 05 [[HopeSpot may ''not'' be the default afterlife for all human beings]]. Just [[SelfInflictedHell those who learn about it]] by, say, reading about his experience]].
* A more metaphorical example occurs %%* PlayedForLaughs in the short ''[[https://www.this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns1SGo3WCF4&feature=youtu.be Dining Room]] [[EitherOrTitle or]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin There is Nothing]]'' according WordOfGod.
* ''WebAnimation/TheSagaOfBiorn'': This is the fate that the old Viking warrior Biorn wants to avoid, determined to die in glorious battle and go to [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] rather than die of old age and go to the blank, featureless Helheim, where the souls of the dead stand around doing absolutely nothing, bored out of their minds. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the nuns he saved during the battle that killed him give him a Christian burial, which acts as a PostMortemConversion and sends him to FluffyCloudHeaven instead... [[HellOfAHeaven which is exactly like Helheim]] except fluffier and cloudier (and full of nuns).]]
* PlayedForLaughs in this [[https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=kG3IrsR5jTc video from]] ''LetsPlay/TomFawkes''.''LetsPlay/TomFawkes''.
* PlayedForLaughs, as with everything else, on Website/{{Uncyclopedia}}'s "You Are Dead" article.
-->Remember how, when you were alive, you wasted hours and hours watching daytime (and probably night-time) television? Well, this is exactly like that, except without the television. And without the day and night. And without time.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The Red Priestess Melisandre is shown [[Characters/GameOfThronesBrotherhoodWithoutBanners Beric Dondarrion]], a knight-turned-outlaw who has been killed and resurrected six times.

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The Red Priestess Melisandre is shown [[Characters/GameOfThronesBrotherhoodWithoutBanners Beric Dondarrion]], a knight-turned-outlaw who has been killed and resurrected six times.


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** Jon Snow also describes this as being the case after [[spoiler:Melisandre brings him back from the dead in Season 6.]]
-->'''Melisandre''': What did you see?\\
'''Jon''': Nothing. There was nothing at all!
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* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has the depths of oblivion, a horrible, horrible, horrible place where pieces go when they die. There isn't much information about it, but it is known that [[spoiler: being locked in a small room for thousands and thousands of years until you manage to fix a logic error in your story]] is like jumping off a ten-story building compared to it, which is like jumping off a hundred story building. Erika doesn't seem fazed by it though.

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* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has the depths of oblivion, a horrible, horrible, horrible place where pieces go when they die. There isn't much information about it, but it is known that [[spoiler: being locked in a small room for thousands and thousands of years until you manage to fix a logic error in your story]] is like jumping off a ten-story building compared to it, which is like jumping off a hundred story building. Erika doesn't seem fazed by it though. It's described as an endless dark dessert that those with the willpower or imagination can use it as a tool, with Maria drawing from it to create life, Erika using it to image new lockroom mysteries and solve the previous games, and Featherine placing the Golden Land in it to make it impossible for anyone to interfere the world, suggesting it's closer to a blank canvas then true nothingness.

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