When finishing up Inferno, one thing in Dante's Hell stuck out in my mind as being more terrifying than anything else. There's the tortures, the demons, the horrible environment, but the most soul-crushing aspect of Hell, is that most of the people don't even know why they are there. They are damned to spend an eternity in godforsaken agony trying to justify their earthly actions. Whether they're speared to their adulterous lover, being burned for a century, or cast down into the disgusting muck, they all are completely clueless as to why they've been sent there.
That is truly Hell.
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