The Centre Cannot Hold

Type: Heaven
Origin: Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey
Admission: unclear, but presumably worthy human souls (see below)

Heaven, for Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan, is a purple series of regular cities, floating through an endless white void like the contents of an unusually serene and orderly lava lamp. Admission is fairly straight forward - [...]

Type: Heaven
Origin: Egyptian mythology
Admission: worthy human souls (see below)

It should be noted that, insofar as determining worthiness is concerned, weighed human hearts against a feather, even the Feather of Ma’at, is a dubious pastime. But for those who have passed this rigourous ordeal - sins, apparently, weigh down a heart, and a sinless heart [...]

Type: Other World
Origin: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Admission: unquiet human souls, some animals (likewise unquiet)

The Land of the Dead resembles greatly the Land of the Living, although it is, apparently, both brighter and more cheerful. It appears to be inhabited chiefly by those spirits with unfinished business, although it’s hard to be sure of this, [...]

Type: Miscellaneous
Origin: The Riverworld novels of Philip José Farmer
Admission: absolutely everyone

Few afterlives are quite as far out as Riverworld. Riverwold is a planet that consists of a single long river valley, winding over the entire surface of the planet from the north pole to the south. It is, of course, artificially constructed. [...]

Type: Heaven
Origin: The Koran
Admission: Righteous People of the Book, some animals

Jannah is the Islamic version of Paradise, and for a Heaven, it’s surprisingly full of adult content and shameless hypocrisy: you basically get to indulge in endless materialism, gluttony and sensuality. You know, all the things you were told not to do in life if [...]

I’ve decided to reformat this series a little, just to avoid a lot of pointless repetition in the entries. As a partial explanation, here’s one of the new bits I plan to add. (Actually, if you go back to the previous ones, I’ve reformatted those to work in the new schema too.)
As a rule, [...]

Type: Limbo
Origin: Catholicism
Admission: Righteous non-Catholics and unbaptised babies

Limbo is a somewhat conflicted afterlife, even within Catholic theological circles. Despite its common conception as a singular domain, it in fact consists of two separate realms, the Limbus Patrum and the Limbus Infantium, each of which serves a different purpose.
The Limbus Patrum, or ‘Limbo of the [...]

Type: Heaven (of a sort)
Origin: Norse Myth
Admission: The best and bravest warriors

Originating in the warlike myths of the Vikings, Valhalla literally translates as “Hall of the Slain.”
Like most afterlives, it places limits on who gets to go to it, in this case that the Slain must have died bravely in battle and then been chosen [...]