"All right, then. I'll go to hell."

Hell is a place where all of evil resides. It is a place where, after death, human conscious goes to recognize all the evil they have done in the past. All evil people are there, taking their turn. It is a place full of fire and lava and rock and ice and wind and all terrible things. The sun burns overhead, the hellfire boils the skin that no longer exists. The biting cold freezes the fingers and toes and noses of souls. But that's just the line. The main point of hell is some sick form of justice - giving the evil what it deserves. We'll look at this from an individual level: a soul dies, and goes to hell, and waits in all that burning and freezing and whatnot for about eternity. Everyone goes through that, regardless of what they did in life. Then they get to their actual "treatment". It's basically just sitting in a room, strapped to a chair, and the entire events' of the souls life are played out. It ignores the good, righteous, whatever, parts of life and goes to everything the soul had done wrong and draws it out infinitely. The theory behind it is that the soul will feel some remorse for those bad things, some regret. It has learned its lesson. After that, justice is served. Hell for that individual has served its purpose, and the soul ceases to exist, no memories no emotions, nothing. There is no heaven, no paradise. That's the fairytale told to grown ups so they can sleep at night. There is only infinite suffering. But you can't say that's unfounded. The afterlife parallels the world. The only reason infinite suffering exists in the afterlife is because there is infinite evil in the world to supply it, justify it. Hell exists to rectify all the evil we humans produce.

You literally just need to exist in an intelligent, self-conscious mind to go to hell. Generalizations are just about exactly what I don't stand for, but I'll just quietly ignore my own value systems I hold for other people and say that everyone is evil on the inside. Not on the individual level, but as a whole society, we are all terrible. We all do things that are bad. My definition of bad is essentially it affects negatively someone else somewhere in the universe. So basically everything can be considered bad, which is why everyone is in hell. But the thing is, that while the entire "hell process" I maintain is a generalization, it is even more specific and personal than any system that groups people by the blanket sins they have committed. Each individual sees exactly what they themselves have done, and their level of torture is proportional to what they have done in life. If someone has actually done nothing wrong, they will merely by presented with moments when they were apathetic to some cause or instance repression - "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis" - (Dante). And of course in that sense then all people are damned to the worst tortures. 

The punishments in hell are all one and the same for each person. After standing for eternity in a long line (wait the DMV is hell!) while being buffeted by hellfire and burning cold at the same time, you get to a room where you review your entire life. The images of your life are sent into your brain, so you may experience not only sight and sound, but all the senses and thoughts, to share in the emotions of the people that surrounded you your whole life. It speeds up the parts of life that were devoid of wrong, but spreads out, slows down, and painstakingly repeats over and over whenever the individual did something bad. Eventually, after repeating the life over and over, the hope is that the soul will show some sort of remorse for each and every thing they did. At that point, hell has run its course and the soul ceases to exist. No paradise, no heaven, nothing. Only hell and then cessation of existence. That's all the punishment necessary. 

Hell looks like every single Judeo-Christian depiction of hell ever. Lots of tinged-red rocks, stalactites, stalagmites, fire, bones, but at the same time is freezing cold and the burning sun shines overhead. Not a friendly, nice, yellow sun, but a terrible, harsh, unforgiving red behemoth so close if you reached your hand up it would be set ablaze in the fire of the sun above and the ground below. The rocky path stretches down and down, farther into the abyss, until you get to the viewing room, which is a lot like those time travel machines in Twelve Monkeys. The line stretches out forever. How people view it is interesting. Most of the detail stuff is hallucinations by each and every soul. None of them actually retain their bodies or their flesh, they are just manifestations of their conscious minds. But to their minds, they have their bodies and as they stand in line forever, their skin and flesh slowly melt of their bodies. They can see and hear the souls in front of them one step further in decay, screaming in agony, and they can hear themselves screaming too as they catch up to the people in front of them. 

No one does escape hell, because there is no place to escape to. Obviously, ceasing to exist is an escape from being strapped to a chair and reminded of all the wrong you ever did in your life. And being strapped to a chair and reminded of all the wrong you ever did in your life is an escape from waiting for all eternity in a line while slowly decaying in hellfire. But no, there is no redeeming place for good souls. There is no place for good souls period, as good souls do not exist. Everyone is subjected to the tortures of hell. There is no way to avoid it, no place to go instead. 

The symbol for this version of hell would be a bloodshot eyeball. Most people would think that out of the two things, waiting in line burning in hellfire is the worse of the two. But that's not true. To relive every moment of your life, every hour, every terrible decision and bad choice replayed thousands of times with no reminder of any of the good that came with life. Sleepless, without food or an sort of comfort or release until the end, the psychological torture of that would be far greater than any physical pain you could endure. Just watching, over... and over... and over...

Every person who has every existed and will ever exist is in hell. Ever since man first realized he was a man, he has been going to hell after death. It would be far easier to specify who's NOT in hell. Only people who were literally powerless to prevent any evil of the world and that did not contribute at all to the evil of the world would just cease to exist immediately after death.