I've been on a meta kick lately!

I watched Grave of the Fireflies yesterday, which I kind of regret because that movie is too depressing to watch twice in one’s life (but it is a good reminder of the horrible miniature tragedies that war and instability and poverty create, particularly for the least hardy human beings i.e. young children -- an important reminder in this time of refugee crises and border wall fanatics). One thing I did genuinely enjoy, however, is the use in the opening scenes of the train as a vehicle that conveys people to the afterlife. I looked this up on TV Tropes because I was sure this has to be a larger phenomenon in fiction, and it's called Afterlife Express.

( Rambling about examples of this trope )