You've suddenly become a God in charge of governing an afterlife...

[Fasckira]

Well to start with I'd need to work out some kind of balance system. Very few people if any are entirely good or entirely evil so a plan would need to be formulated to work out the points of every action taken in a person's life to see if it puts them in the "good" or "bad" afterlife.

Good people would get a chance to relive any moment of their life and play it out differently in mini alternate realities without it impacting the real world events in anyway. Kind of like completing a game and getting to replay the levels with special cheat mode options on, like perhaps replay a certain part of your life you felt had been difficult but with super powers or something.

Bad people would be forced to relive all their most evil moments repeatedly as the victims. So a rapist for example would spend his enternity as his various victims being raped essentially by himself.

At any time a good person could chose to ascend to a pure energy life - lose all the feelings, emotions, thoughts, etc and just be a completely happy entity thingy. A bad person however would be required to carry on receiving their hell till they were truly sorry (and not just thinking they're sorry to get out early) then they could go up to the completely happy energy thing.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

Heaven; 95% of people get into Heaven. Heaven is basically rows and rows of doors, each assigned to a specific person, who then gets to live their ideal lives. If you want to be President; then your president of a grand nation that's in the throws of prosperity, with no enemies and no poverty to speak of. If you want to be a grand warrior; then your champion of whatever realm you want to be. Your ideal life will never get boring, though, because it will basically be like a new life, except you can't die. Also, you can always walk out of the room and go around Heaven for Spiritual reasons, enjoyment with other real souls, or to just take a breath.

Hell; 5% of people get into Hell (Either because they want to, or because they're real sick twisted mother fudgers). They get to live in a swamp that's always raining, has no solid ground, is a breeding ground for disease and alligators, and has very few patches of dry ground. There will be an arena for those who believe they can be redeemed, and they will have to fight 10 rounds of demons (From Imps and fellow Hell-livers, to Giant Demons, Liches, Demon Lords, Corrupted Humans, and others). Anyone who can actually beat all 10 rounds can get to heaven.

 

[Ultramatic]

Banish all the Heathens to Hell and LOL.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I have to say that the heaven and hell portrayed by the writers of the show Supernatural are pretty good approximations of how I would want to run the spiritual afterlife. Only that the angels wouldn't be a**holes and I wouldn't toy with living things and make many suffer to either prove a point or validate the inferiority of certain beings over others.

I especially liked the part where hell became an endless line, as Crowly said, it's much more efficient considering the people who go to hell usually enjoy doing evil things anyway, no one likes waiting in line.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would just make it whatever the dead people desire/ wishes or dreams come true like in that Robin Williams film "What Dreams May Come" and haved that central hub thing in the Heaven scene from Bill and Ted Bogus Journey.
However to offset the boredom that spawn from it I will add in some conflict/ misforture or something different/ unpredicted into the mix to keep it an suprise to some people.

 

[BENZOOKA]

There is no afterlife, so I might as well be the god ruling afterlife even now.

 

[Whispering Cynic]

Each freshly deceased person gets to review their life, and receive experience points for various things he/she accomplished. Based upon the experience points acumulated, that person then gets a corresponding number of attribute, skill, perk/feat points, and some traits (some optional, some fixed - karma based), builds a new character however he/she wishes and gets respawned (reborn, reincarnated - whatever). I'd even let people reroll their last life, and retain some (maybe even all?) of their memories if they bought the appropriate (very expensive) perks. Auto-assign is available for the lazies.

Then I'd just kick back, let the system run and watch the show.

 

[itsthesheppy]

No heaven, no limbo, no purgatory, no hell.
Instant switch-off, fade to nothing, the end.

The idea of an afterlife scares the shit out of me.

What, you don't think an undying eternity of watching the universe die a slow, cold death as the stars eventually all burn themselves out, all species throughout the universe go extinct, leaving a huge empty space with no energy, waiting until the last particle of matter has finally decayed and existence itself ceases to be? And then looking at that, forever?

Until the memory of your life becomes so small in comparison to the memory of your afterlife that you forget what it was like on earth. When you forget the sounds birds made, the taste of ice cream. You forget the names of your family and friends, and eventually you forget that there was ever an earth at all, that there was anything other than an un-ending immortal risk-free existence?

That doesn't sound fun to you? Man, you just can't please some people.

 

[Alssadar]

Well, if the traditional American workspace makes sense, I'll settle it off that.
Heaven, Limbo and Hell are interchangeable.
Heaven is when you're a good person, and do generally good things. I'll have a couple committees together to determine that: they'll take account of most of the things you did, and for what reasons.
There will be separate committees (like in business) that will keep track of your actions in the afterlife. Interpersonal relationships are allowed, but it is how you handle them (as well as the person you're dealing with) that determines how they are judged. People can die, but they'll just resurrect in a couple hours - meaning there's a difference in comedic death and murder death; pain is also rather null (So that you can't torture people), but stubbing your toe still hurts like a *****.
Heaven will give you a large office space and good home. You'll be paid well, not have much work, and can afford nice things. However, if you abuse your powers and be an asshole, you'll be demoted down to limbo.
Limbo is the in-between. Work is mediocre, and can be put off. If you do the work, however, it will put points to "heaven," while casting off and laziness makes "hell" points. Pay will be medium, as for your rooming. You can just do normal things, and nothing will change.
Hell will be bad. Your work doesn't matter at all, and your bosses keep shelving work upon you. You are requried to do overtime, and if you do overtime over that, it'll add to your "good points." Housing will suck, and your funds will be equal to a college student without any outside payments.
In this system, people will realize the benefits of good, and downfalls of being evil. The constitution of the new realm will be decided with the souls of the greatest men in history (including myself), so we can decide on all that junk.
I will strive to be a merciful and benevolent CEO who strives for productivity to compete against the foreign realms that the other gods I will spawn will dictate.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I have to say that the heaven and hell portrayed by the writers of the show Supernatural are pretty good approximations of how I would want to run the spiritual afterlife. Only that the angels wouldn't be a**holes and I wouldn't toy with living things and make many suffer to either prove a point or validate the inferiority of certain beings over others.

I especially liked the part where hell became an endless line, as Crowly said, it's much more efficient considering the people who go to hell usually enjoy doing evil things anyway, no one likes waiting in line.

Yes! Thank you so much for reminding me of that. This is why I love Supernatural so much. They take traditional myths and lore and put an awesome spin to it that makes it both great and innovating.

 

[Eddie the head]

My afterlife would have hookers and black jack in fact forget the black jack. Aaa forget the whole damn thing.

 

[Frankster]

I swear there was an old sim game on this topic...

Anyways I'd make it fairly easy: make heaven a stereotypical vision of paradise with a communal feel where people reside in areas that are connected to people they knew in life. Within their homes each "good" person will have a pocket dimension where they are god that acts like a star trek holodek in that they can do whatever they want.

Ah but where is hell? Doesn't exist, rather within heaven there would be self improvement areas and trials to purify and make up for mortal mistakes and failings, the aim of which is to purify the soul of its evil, preferably voluntary (if an evil person refuses to work on their failings, then their heaven privileges will get gradually revoked until they do a trial or something).

Don't like the idea of heaven and hell separating people into neat piles of good and evil ppl, I view the world in shades of grey and if people deluded themselves into thinking they are paragorns of virtue and innocence, then they probably ain't as much as they think (and isnt pride/arrogance a sin anyways?).

 

[poiuppx]

I would make it so the just and noble, those who lived their lives on the side of good even if only quietly in their hearts while working their lives away in a factory or cubicle, were given the royal treatment. Boundless entertainment and pleasures, an endless array of activities, and every kind of sport they can imagine. Especially hunting.

Because what they would hunt would be the OTHER souls.

Those who committed horrors and atrocities would serve out a sentence of roughly one hundred years- exceeding all save the most stubborn lifespans of the cruel and twisted -where they are tormented expressly BY the entertainments of the just and noble. Play a video game? They're the mooks you gun down. Go hunting? That fox you just ran down, hounded with your once-departed dog, and then shot dead, had it coming.

And here's the thing. After a hundred years, I'd let them reincarnate- an option, I'll note, is open Day 1 for any of the judged-as-good souls -but some part of them would ALWAYS remember what the penalty was for their misdeeds in life. Deep down, some errant part of them would tremble in fear of reprisal if nothing else, guiding them away from the cruel and crass and closer to kindness and charity. In time, action becomes thought and thought becomes creed, and the person would truly be redeemed. A bit cold, perhaps, but you don't get to be a successful deity just by giving out hugs and free cookies.

...and if that proves to be too much work, I'll just make like a zillion planets and start seeding them all with the souls of the dead. See if I can get some kinda interstellar wars going eventually. That'd be cool too.

 

[White Lightning]

Every one who died would arrive at the gates of Heaven, once they got there they would be judged on their life and asked a variety of questions, the results would decide where they end up. If the person is being sent to Heaven they are given a set of rules that are to be always followed. The rules are the typical "don't be a dick" sort of thing, if a rule is broken they are instantly send to Hell.

Heaven would consist of a planet just like Earth execpt everyone is happy (Whether they like it or not) and there are Rainbows and the Trees are Lollipops and the Oceans are made of Chocolate. People don't need to eat or sleep or breath or any of that stuff but they can if they want to. No one wears clothes, there is no "perfect look" and everyone is happy with how they and eveyone else look. The temperature is always really nice (Like a warm day but with a slight breeze so it isn't too hot). There is no fear or disease all the animals are nice to people and each other, basically all that hippie ra ra let's be friends perfect world fairy tale bullshit. If at anytime someone wanted to opt out of Heaven they could just say so, and there would be a seven day waiting period (Incase they wanted to change their mind) afterwards they would fade away to nothing.

Hell would be divided into an unlimited amount of rooms, each room is catared to the individual who is sent to it. The punishment is usually related to and/or ironic to whatever bad thing they did. For example a Rapist is put into a room filled with what they percieve are the most beautiful people ever (Basically the type of people they would want to rape) however the person being punished has no genitals, arms, legs, or mouth. Just ears, eyes, a nose and a torso, and the people in the room would act lewdly and over sexually and constantly mock the person being punished. The people being punished can't eat, sleep, or breath however they constantly feel the effects of not doing those things but won't die. (So they constantly have huge stomach pains from not eating but it won't kill them and so on) People being punished would always be conscious and perfectly sane and would live out their punishments for 1000 years before fading away to nothing.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Make a planet.

Cover the planet with weapons.

Put EVERYONE on it.

Have everyone revive at the start of the next day.

Offer the survivor a cookie.

Grab the popcorn and watch.

 

[dtgenshiken7]

I suppose for the good 'uns I'd let their imagination run what they got, seems like an efficient way to give them what they want. as for the ne'er-do-wells, I can imagine a small, grey box, slowly getting hotter, a degree a year, for all eternity...

 

[Gabanuka]

Valhalla. That's all, different zones for different combat styles and one huuuuuuuuuuuuuge dining/partying room.