deadland

noun3

1. •
   Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.

   • After the feverish days over deadland trails, — The repose of the gray-veiled and quiet-eyed twilight, The shimmering haze of the blue mountain valley, And the tranquil blue deep of the pool — 1920
2. •
   A place of death; a deadly land.

   • Does the hideous famine that gnaws the entrails with fiery fangs and burns up the wrenched and tortured tissues till the land sickens with its burden of deadland dying—does that show His pity? — 1905
3. •
   The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.

   • A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines. — 1946