Has anyone ever made this movie?

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A scientist dies and goes to heaven. Alight with skepticism and curiosity, she endeavors to learn how heaven works. Plot ensues.

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[novalis.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that I've read story versions of something like this. A bit of Philip Dick and James Morrow, maybe. Oh, also, Greg Egan and Vernor Vinge (in The Cookie Monster) have both explored the physics of virtual environments.

Still, I think it's an area that could use a good thorough treatment.

[xach.livejournal.com]

That's pretty farfetched. A lady scientist?

[grr-plus1.livejournal.com]

Plenty of films about the metaphysics of those that didn't quite make it to the afterlife... "I can see dead people!".

In literature, two things come to mind: LeGuin's _The Farthest Shore_ and Pullman's _Golden Compass_ trilogy. Both deal with an afterlife that is supposed to be "heaven", but whose idea is fundamentally corrupt, turning it into infinite existential boredom. All or part of the plot in both hinges on how to fix it. Neither has made it to film, though.