"In truth - one thing is certain: there exists a night into whose solitude no voice reaches; there is a door through which we can only walk alone - the door of death.  In the last analysis all the fear in the world is the fear of this loneliness.  From this point of view it is possible to understand why the Old Testament has only one word for hell and death, the word scheol; in the last resort it regards both as identical.  Death is absolute loneliness.  But the loneliness into which love can no longer reach is hell."

-- Ratzinger's Introduction, p. 229

Thus, hell is already here for some of us!
Not a place, geographically speaking, but the isolation
of the categorical refusal to let oneself be penetrated by Love,
the rejection of Love's desire to establish communion and to link up
with oneself, and the determination to be self-sufficient. This loneliness
should lead to suicide as a logical conclusion.