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Option2: You choose to not believe and hell is actually real.Ouch.
Look at it this way, Hell doesn't have to be real when God is real, infact why should there be heaven if God would exist? It's not like it's mutually inclusive. In my opinion it's one of those reward/punishment things that do not make sense at all if you don't know if any of this is true. One of the main reasons/hints why I think the bible and the christian religion are making extensive use of psychological traps and scare-tactics just to 'gain souls'.
It's a bit like the effect of people more or less deciding things for you and say 'don't worry it's for your own good as long as you do this and this and this'. If you trust these kind of people you would probably act according to their view, 'keep them uninformed and get total control'. Authority is good as long as it's justified, something religion by definition can not be,
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4) Speak the truth.
How about start with that and think accordingly. We don't know, thus any speculation is just that, I know this is a 'what if' thread, but still.
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2) SUICIDE! My girlfriend still thinks this is stupid, but I'm sorry I can't live just even 100 short stupid years knowing it's really all for nothing. It might be hypocritical to commit suicide because life is too short, but I couldn't deal with the depression of knowing my entire life, and everything I do is meaningless.
You know what, you're girlfriend is right. Be careful not to get carried away because of hope based upon close to nothing. Believe in yourself instead, give your life meaning, because you're the only one who can. For people like you it would not be good figuring out the truth,
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On the other hand, fire is hot and eternity is out of the grasp of our minds.
Nope, quite the contrary, it simply goes on and on and on and on forever and ever, which is possible to graps, but to describe it, it would take an equally infinite amount of words to exactly describe how long this would take, unless of course an equally vague description like 'forever' suffices. Infact I think the painfully hot temperatures are more difficult to grasp. Just try describing what you would feel, infact depending on wether or not special rules apply in hell, you'd probably feel nothing since all is burned and you'll get used to it, 
Cheers
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