Death is supposed to be the final sleep, and the afterlife the ultimate rest after a life that was hopefully well lived. Alternately, needing to rest is what people exhausted from a decades-long trek through life need, but the soul has a little more resiliency now that the pesky body isn't saying how tired it is all the time. When a new soul wakes up on the banks of the Nile, Anubis gives them a place to stay in a friendly little settlement, and while it's a roof and bed that's the best that can be said about it. Everything is run down and broken, but on the plus side seeing as this is the soul's literally-forever home that gives them something to do as they get settled into the afterlife.
Work Is Eternal But the Promise Of Forever Means There's No Rush
Fields of Aaru is a post-survival survival game set in a comfy ancient Egypt afterlife, and its demo just came out on Steam. As a new soul freshly arrived, you won't have memories of the skills of your former life, not to mention "You can't take it with you" being as true in ancient Egypt...
