The Afterlife Is The Future

The afterlife turns out to be the far distant future, where select human minds or souls are saved at the moment before death and uploaded to new superhuman bodies to serve the purposes of the post-human societies of that future. As it turns out, while skills and competencies can be learned, personalities must be forged through trials and challenges, and some of the best personalities are of the heroes of the distant past. This story starts with the last moments of one such hero, and follows their adventure into the future world.