SpawnPoint - Where Game Begins

I've been going over the idea in my head for a while, and I've got the basics going for this book I want to write.  
It's about this guy Vincent, who for an unknown reason decides to commit suicide one night.  He wakes and goes through a twisted sort of afterlife and travels with his guide (some little girl) as he tries to earn his place in death.

 - yes, I'm weird

I also have this other idea going to:
It starts out with this impoverished elderly woman who dies in the sandy streets of a barren wasteland - world.  As she dies, the first rain in years falls and a child is born on the outskirts of town, a young girl (I haven't picked a name yet).  I wanted it to kinda be about how the old woman was god, and yet so is the newborn child...kinda repeating like the seasons, yet over a much longer duration.