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There is only 1 HELL and 1 HEAVEN lah!  Which 1 you want to go leh?

Jesus repeatedly warned that there isn't one destination for all but two distinct roads in this life that lead to two different destinations in the afterlife. In His most extensive discourse about the hereafter, He related the story of a rich man and a poor man - Lazarus - who both died. They shared the same experience of death, but not the same destiny. See Luke 16:22-24.

In this story Jesus affirms that people face two possible eternal destinies when they die, and one of those possibilities is eternal damnation. Hell is an forever destination (Matt 25:46), a place of physical suffering (Matt 22:13; Luke 16:24), and, most devastatingly, an irrevocable destination (Luke 16:26). Once a man pops his clogs and finds himself in this place of eternal punishment, all opportunity for faith and repentance is over.

In Jesus's story, the rich man begged Abraham for relief from his suffering and, if that wasn't possible, for someone to leave heaven and warn his siblings on earth of the terrible destiny that awaited them. I can imagine this rich man, who had experienced the devastating reality of hell, would be the greatest evangelist of all time! However, Abraham explained why it was impossible to grant his request:

"And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us." (Luke 16:26)

It's hard to imagine being happy without our loved ones. God does not desire that any go to hell (Ezekiel 33:11). The Bible says that God is "not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9). Throughout the Bible, from the Old Testament right to the last page of the New Testament, you'll find again and again where the Word of God puts the responsibility for receiving the blessings of God upon each individual person. For example, God said, ".. CHOOSE YOU this day whom ye will serve.." (Joshua 24:15). He leaves the choice up to us. Then in the Book of Revelation the Word of God says, "..Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.. whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely" (Rev 22:17). "Whosoever" means each individual person must make the choice for himself to enter through God's doors of blessings.