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[Marvel] If Doctor Strange dies, who'd have claim on his soul?

So in Marvel the afterlife seems to be pretty simple; you go to the afterlife of whatever god you believe in. Sure there might be extra entry requirements, like dying in battle, but you wouldn't see a Christian in Vallhalla unless he was significantly connected to the Norse Gods in some way.


... But Doctor Strange knows about all of them. He's aware of countless pantheons and afterlives, extradimensional entities, eldritch horrors, cosmic entities and so on. It wouldn't surprise me if he's sold his soul to half of them already

So what would happen when Strange dies? I can't remember him being a particularly religious man, but he's certainly *aware* of all the mystical shit that exists out there. Do the Vishanti have an afterlife perhaps? Does every god battle over who gets to keep him?
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'Knows about' and 'believes in' are two different things.  All the Avengers know that Mephisto exists, but that doesn't make their souls his property.  Or Thor's, for that matter.  It's not about what religions you know of, but about what religion you *commit* to. 

Strange, for his part, has the magical power and knowledge to basically choose his own afterlife.  If he wants to go to Valhalla and hang with Thor, or lurk around Tibet advising the next hundred Sorcerer Supremes, he can and will make it happen.  The only problem would be if he *did* sell his soul (and can't weasel out of it), or if whoever kills him is powerful enough to destroy or bind his soul in the process.  Both of those are known side effects of Sorcerer Supreming.