Research into religion and the afterlife!

Egyptain beliefs on the afterlife: 

Once a person died there sould would enter the underworld where each individual would have to pass certain tests and then reach thier judgement day. This step would take place in the Hall of two truths. Anubis was considered the god of the dead, he was shown as a jackal headed deity. He would judge each personal soul using a scale and a feather. If the sould weighed more than the feather then that sould was bad and would be cast down to the devourer of the dead. If thier sould was lighter than the feather then they would enter a new dimension full of bliss and eternal happiness where they would start there new life. They also believed that once they were buried that they would take any belongings that were also buried along with them into the afterlife. So oftem mummies would be buried with gold, food or personal belongings that would help them in the afterlife.

Australian Aborigines beliefs on the afterlife:

For traditional aborigines, the spirit world was closely interwoven with the physical world, so the transition between one and the other was explained in terms of traditional relationships with the land. Death marked the end of the physical life only, with the spirit then released to rejoin the spirits of ancestors, and of the features of the land itself. The "dreamtime" was the world of creation, of the earliest tribal memories, but also of the continuing abode of all those who could not be immediately seen in the physical world. Some tribes believed that the spirit remained to inhabit the place where the person had died, while others believed that it was carried across the sea to the land of the dead. In some tribes, the spirit was believed to have a chance to be reborn at some future time and live another earthly existence

Judaism beliefs on the afterlife:
Jews still hope for the coming of the Messiah, who will hand out eternal judgment and reward to all. This hope is largely communal; the entire Jewish race and the whole of creation is in view more than individual men. In the end the moral life of man here on earth is considered the most proper concern of man; final judgments are best left to God.

Buddhist beliefs on the afterlife:
The Buddha said of death:

Life is a journey.
Death is a return to earth.
The universe is like an inn.
The passing years are like dust.

Regard this phantom world
As a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp - a phantom - and a dream. 

According to Buddhism, after death one is either reborn into another body (reincarnated) or enters nirvana. Only Buddhas - those who have attained enlightenment - will achieve the latter destination.
Nirvana is the state of final liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. It is also therefore the end of suffering. The literal meaning of the word is "to extinguish," in the way that a fire goes out when it runs out of fuel.