What are the roman Catholic views on life after death?

Answer 1

Roman Catholics believe in three places a soul can go after death: Hell, Heaven, or Purgatory. Heaven and Hell are eternal, Purgatory is a place of purification on the way to Heaven. A single unrepented mortal sin can send a soul to Hell forever. If a soul repents of his sins before death, the soul will probably go to Purgatory for some time for purification and then enter Heaven.

Answer 2

God has created us for union with Him, a state known as heaven. He created us to live forever, and this we will do. Our short time on earth is nothing other than a time of trial or decision in which we have to decide where we want to spent our eternity. We are here on earth for one reason and one reason only, to choose God, and to love Him. When this earthly life is over, we are given the thing we loved the most in life, if that was God, then we are taken to live with Him forever in heaven. If we loved anything else more than God, ourselves, or created things, then we are given what we want and excluded from heaven, this is known as hell and consists primarily in pain, the two pains of loss of God (the happiness for which we were created) and the pain of sense (the pain that we will feel in all the senses with which we sinned on earth.)