Originally Posted by
Conradine
Let's say the cosmology is the one of Fiendish Codex.
Let's say we take an Evil person who's about to die and who didn't know what hell exactly is before.
That person is showed through magic what it is and explained what it means: torture, loss of identity, then becoming a nearly mindless lemure.
Redemption is no more an option. Too late, and the evil person feels only fear, not remorse anyway.
The only loophole is that the evil person can have his soul destroyed ( by fueling a magical item creation or similar stuff ) instead.
So, given the choice, on 100 people, how many would choose to go to Hell and how many would choose to have their soul annihilated instead?