The article explores religious components in understanding death in Cyberpunk genre of the mass culture. Authors working in this genre tried to change and rethink the inherited sci-fi themes, which were deeply connected to a certain cultural code. In particular, previous works of mainstream art largely followed the Christian traditional view of death as a chance to attain resurrection and eternal life. On the contrary, the cyberpunk, influenced by both Oriental teachings and a certain crisis within the (post-) Christian western culture, offered alternative understanding of death as a .liberation., an escape from the inevitably imperfect material world.