#DESERT OF THE DAMNED HAND OF FATE SERIES#

In the Anime, this is shown through an eyecatch, where it's said that the place people go after they die is Mu, 'Nothingness'.

#DESERT OF THE DAMNED HAND OF FATE SERIES#

At the end of the series Ryuk is shown to have told Light in a flashback that there's no Heaven or Hell for anyone at the beginning of the series, he had told him that this was the case only for Death Note users.A frequent purpose for people who try to build an Artificial Afterlife is to avoid this or the Cessation of Existence. See also White Void Room, which may be the easiest visual way to depict the Nothingness. Compare Void Between the Worlds, another type of empty dimension. A possible explanation for Death Amnesia, and a possible destination for those who are Barred from the Afterlife. A step below Purgatory and Limbo, within which, bleak or dull though it may be, at least there's something. This one of many ways to depict Hell, since isolation isn't exactly peachy. Sometimes this is used as an Ironic Hell against a Flat-Earth Atheist, but just as frequently, Nothingness does not discriminate and everyone, good and bad, goes there. This trope is when there is something after death, and that something is empty space. Some people find that thought comforting to others, it is worse. Not to be confused with the idea that there is literally nothing after death: no darkness, no featureless planes, no conscious awareness, simply a Cessation of Existence. Whether or not this 'non-existence involves the souls' existence and whether or not souls are consciously aware of the lack of existence around them is Depending on the Writer. The Nothingness is an afterlife where souls go to a bleak, featureless Plane of (Non) Existence.

Desert of the damned hand of fate