10596. A person's life after death consists in the life of his love and the life of his faith. Therefore what his love has been like and what his faith has been like while he lived in the world determines what kind of life will be his for evermore. The life of hell is the lot of those who have loved themselves and the world above all things, and the life of heaven that of those who have loved God above all things and their neighbour as themselves. The latter are those who possess faith, but the former those who do not. The life of heaven is what is called eternal life, and the life of hell is what is called spiritual death.