While it s not immediately obvious there are multiple clues in the waiting room scenes that point to the idea that recently deceased are arriving from every continent and every point in time.
Beetlejuice waiting room scene.
In the first scene there are three clearly contemporary newly deceased individuals who respectively died surfing.
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Adam and barbara arrive in the neitherworld waiting room after they follow the emergency instructions from the handbook for the recently deceased from the movie we can see that the waiting room is ran by civil servants and it is where you must go to meet or make an appointment with your.
This sequence finds adam alec baldwin and barbara geena davis come to meet their caseworker juno and they have to wait with a number of other spirits.