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{{quote|''Gluttons can't eat or drink in Hell because they ate and drank so much in life. And they are trapped in putrid soil because they produced nothing but garbage in life. And they are being torn apart constantly by Cerberus's three sets of bloody teeth, because Dante [[Sophisticated As Hell|is one sick motherfucker]].''|'''''[[Lore Sjoberg]]''''' , '''''The Book of Ratings''''', [http://www.bookofratings.com/dante1.html Dante's Inferno Punishments, Part 1]}}
Most depictions of Hell involve some form of eternal punishment for the damned souls who are sent there. In [[Irony|Ironic]] [[Hell]], they get a more personal service. Each sinner gets a punishment that is an ironic reminder of the sins of which he or she is guilty. A glutton might be force-fed something unpleasant for eternity (a more common version is that they're fed something they enjoyed - ceaselessly, becoming wholly sick of it, for eternity), or might be prevented from eating ever again. Perhaps the demons just don't want people to forget the sins they committed.
Many examples of '''Ironic Hell''' are references to Dante's Inferno (Book 1 of the ''[[Divine Comedy]]''), which depicts Hell in this way. It was published in 1314; however, the basic idea goes back [[Older Than Feudalism|even further]], to Greek myths of Tartarus, for example with Tantalus.
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