Now, you have an opportunity to repent, but when you reach the dust, there will be no opportunity.
If you reach Hades, there will be no chance. After death, there is no chance. After death, the Holy Bible says that
“the door was shut” (Mt.25:10) and the foolish virgins stood outside- they had lost the chance.
All the inhabitants of Hades long to have one minute of your lifetime, in which to offer repentance, but they cannot find it. All the inhabitants of Hades yearn for just one minute of your lifetime in which they would offer repentance, yet they cannot find that minute- that one minute they cannot find. And you have a lifetime granted you by God in which to offer repentance. So do not be negligent.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Before the Just Judge