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I'm not sure if I'm remembering a forgotten piece of media or just having a recurring dream, but here goes:
A number of people are either living on Mars or travel there, and either find or build a device to let them Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, which is one-way and an allegory for death.
Tone of the work feels like it would have been written in the 80's or earlier, genre sci fi