Aw, dammit!

“I’m… dead?”
 
“Well, you were literally vaporized in a magical explosion seconds ago, so… yes. You’re dead!”
 
“I… I… oh. So where do I go from here? Is there a judgement? Where will I be sent?”
 
“Oh, that’s a common misconception. No, don’t worry – this is it!”
 
“This place here?”
 
“Yup!”
 
“Just this… blue field of nothingness?”
 
“Yup!”
 
“What, do I just hang about here forever?”
 
“Essentially!”
 
“And there’s really nothing else after this?”
 
“Nope!”
 
“… oh.”
 
“Well, I’ve got to go! Distraught friends to console, state funeral to arrange, new national saviors to find and bring together through a series of peculiar and high-stakes misadventures uncannily arranged to strengthen their bonds, you know how it is. You get to know the afterlife! I’ll be back to check in on you the next time somebody you know dies.”
 
“Wait, Princess Cel-”
 
“Goodbye!”

Know what would’ve been sooooo much better?
 
Discord: Welcome to the Afterlife, Twilight. You’re DEAD.  
Twilight: Discord! What is going on??  
Discord: I told you. You’re dead, this is the Afterlife… and I’m god.
 
You get the idea. It just seems so… perfectly set up for it.

@Advance  
Morgan Freeman x Celestia otp?  
I’m diggin’ it.

That would have been an awesome ending.

You’re dead. This is the afterlife. And I’m GAWD.

YOU ARE DEAD
 
NOT BIG SURPRISE

@Background Pony
 
Dammit! That is what he says!

Congratulations!
 

Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Light.  
You’re dead.

Love this headcanon.

Congratulations on your first ascension!
 
Just reincarnate whenever you feel ready.

Then her life flashes before her eyes.

Not big surprise!