" Afterlife " is the experience of a Goldman Sachs investment banker , William Andrews . He dies , surrounded by his wife and children , and then enters a bureaucratic vision of the afterlife . There , he meets a spiritual caseworker who offers him a difficult choice , seemingly with the knowledge that he has already made the choice many times before . As well as the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 , in which Goldman Sachs was implicated , the story also refers to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire , the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
Afterlife (short story)