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Message: <blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 3345986" data-attributes="member: 13855">The Buffy exampleSomeone mentioned the Buffy the Vampire Series as an apt way to handle the return from the dead, by having them come back ... different. But it also provides an excellent example for why MOST people, good people, would not come back, whatever the state of the world they left behind:BUFFY: (still looking down) I was happy. Wherever I ... was ... I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time ... didn't mean anything ... nothing had form ... but I was still me, you know? (glances at him, then away) And I was warm ... and I was loved ... and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or ... any of it, really ... but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. (almost tearful) I was torn out of there. Pulled out ... by my friends. (Spike continues staring, listening) Everything here is ... hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch ... this is Hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that ... (softly) knowing what I've lost...BUFFY: They can never know. Never.</blockquote>