Afterlife

Front matter
Connections


 * Heaven
 * Hell
 * Purgatory

Scope


 * Across all religions, where do we go when we die?
 * Maybe covers how to determine where you will go.

List of places
Heaven-like


 * Heaven (Christian)
 * Jannah (Muslim)
 * Valhalla (Viking, prep for war, not much focus on pleasure)
 * Elysium (Greek), higher level Isles of the Blessed (Greek)

Hell-like


 * Hell (Christian)
 * Purgatory (Catholic/Christian)
 * Gehenna (Hebrew possible temp chamber, Christian synonym for hell)

Place of all dead (potentially temporary)


 * Sheol (OT)
 * Hades (Greek, contains all good/bad areas)

Other


 * Limbo (Greek?), Asphodel Meadows (Greek, for neutral people), Mourning Fields (Greek, for wasting life on unrequited love)
 * Nirvana (Buddhism, become nothing?)

Verses

 * Ps 49
 * v7-9 Redemption of soul is costly, to life forever and not see decay (talking about first death or eternal life?)
 * Impossible to escape death
 * God will redeem my life from Sheol
 * Ecclesiastes

Talk
It seems that generally OT thought death (and no more consciousness) was final destination, though David especially talks vaguely of things beyond.