My dear Terra:

[Note: I do not normally publish messages like yours, but I decided to publish an answer to you. Actually I used your "question" as a training tool for one of our students studying to become a Deliverance Counselor. Her response was excellent so I will use her words among my own.]

I am sorry to hear that you feel that anything in this world is worth going to Hell. The worst disaster that could befall a human soul is to end up in Hell. Perhaps you've decided that giving up sin is worse than anything experienced in Hell. Perhaps you really do not believe in Hell. In any event you certainly take a flippant view of hell and of your own sin. This is destructive to you psychologically as well as spiritually, as well as to your eternal residence.

Hell exist, God exist, the devil exists whether or not you believe it to be so. Because these things exist I think you need a reality check on the seriousness of the Hell that you seem to not mind going to live in eternity.

Saint Faustina experienced a vision of Hell and explained the tortures one experiences there. She explains that the suffering there is indescribable:

The First Torture that constitutes Hell is the loss of God. You may not believe there is a God but that doesn't matter. If you go to Hell you will know there is a God and you will feel loss. God created us to share His love with us, and apart from Him, we have no hope, no peace, no joy and no love. Perhaps very important to you is that you will experience no pleasure in Hell. You may have a form of pleasure on this earth but it will end and you will be in suffering for eternity. Even the pleasure here on earth, when it is without God, is a pale imitation of what real pleasure is like when we are with God. 

The Second Torture is perpetual remorse of conscience. Those sins that a person enjoyed all the way to Hell will cause that person relentless and unending regret. Forever the person in Hell will feel sorrow for having chosen sin over God.

The Third Torture is that one's condition will never change. Imagine how intolerable it is just to burn your hand briefly on an oven. How much greater would be the pain caused by the fires of Hell! What's worse is that when 1,000 years have passed, all you have to look forward to is another 1,000 years of misery, and another, and another, with no end, no relief, and no escape. While Hell may not have literal fires, the image of being burned alive without relief is as close as we can get to the idea of the suffering in hell.

Saint Faustina goes on to describe other sufferings:

The Fourth Torture is that the fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it. A terrible suffering since it is a purely spiritual fire.

The Fifth Torture is continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell, and despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own.

The Sixth Torture is the constant company of Satan.

The Seventh Torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.

Additionally, there are special tortures destined for particular souls. These are the torments of the senses. Each soul undergoes terrible and indescribable sufferings related to the manner in which it has sinned. Dante envisioned those in the Second Circle of Hell, those enslaved by their passions of list, fornication, and adultery as sinners helplessly tossed and whirled by violent winds with no hope of rest. This may be like caught up in a tornado forever. This symbolizes the power of lust to blow one about needlessly and aimlessly, helpless in the tempests of passion. This is an incontinence of passion -- forever incontinent.

What St. Faustina describes here is terrifying, but does not have to be. As long as you are alive, you can still choose God and change the direction your soul is headed. There is no sin that is worth your soul.

The steps to avoid hell:

The very Preliminary Step is to be a Christian. If you are not Christian, then conversion to Jesus Christ is needed. Christ is the bridge between man and God. Without him there is no salvation. One must repent of their sins, ask for forgiveness, and accept Christ as their savior. Then your soul will be restored and you have access to the graces of God and to the promise of heaven.

Once you are a Christian, or if you already are, the following steps are needed to avoid hell:

1) The first step is repentance whenever we sin - turning away from sin and resolving to do your best to avoid it in the future.

2) The second step is to Confess your sin, which restores your soul to a state of sanctifying grace; the state you must be in when you die in order to get to Heaven. If you are Catholic that means the Sacrament of Confession.

3) The third step is to live the Christ life that will enable you to avoid sin and losing that sanctifying grace that is needed to reach heaven. This means attending weekly worship in whatever denomination you belong. As a Catholic that means weekly Mass attendance with Communion. Church attendance will help you maintain that state of grace. In addition daily prayers and devotions, and living out your faith in good works. All these things will help you stay in a state of Grace. But if you fall into sin again, go back to step 1 and start over.

As long as you are on earth God's mercy is available to you. Once we die, the time of mercy is over and the time of justice has begun. I pray that you will accept the mercy being offered to you now.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary