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While the Church often highlights the glorious resurrection of the body for those in Heaven, we sometimes forget what will happen to any who choose to go to Hell.
They too will receive a resurrected body, but not in the same way as those in Heaven.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this teaching.
Fr. William Saunders expands on this belief in an article about the Resurrection of the Dead from the Arlington Catholic Herald.
For any who choose to go to Hell to be separated from God, this will only mean suffering, as Jesus frequently mentions in the Gospels.
Yet, it should be noted that the "chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs."
The physical suffering will certainly be great, but it will be no match to the feeling of isolation from God, an isolation that these souls freely chose at the end of their lives.
Remember, no one is ever "sent" to Hell. It is a free choice by those who live their entire lives detached from God and who, at death's door, would rather be in isolation than in communion with God.
As well, CCC 1058 tells us:
