Life Everlasting Episode 1 - Introduction to the Four Last Things

Limbo

• Whatever Happened to Limbo? - Quick answer by Tom Nash
• What’s the Deal with Limbo? - Article by Tim Staples

Memento Mori (Remember your death)

• Memento Mori: Death in Christian Tradition - Article by Joseph Shaw
• Reclaiming the Catholic Sense and Use of Memento Mori - Article by Shawn Tribe

State of Those Who Died Before Christ

• Catechism paragraph Christ Descended into Hell  - CCC § 632-635
• All dead, good or evil, before Christ share are in a similar state of soul or "place" (Hebrew Sheol or Greek Hades)
• But the states of good and evil are not identical; refers to "place" of the righteous as the Bosom of Abraham 
• What Is the Limbo of the Fathers? - Short answer by Fr. Charles Grondin
• Early Jewish belief in Sheol - One "place" - all dead went there 
• Later Jewish belief in Sheol - Split into two "places" - righteous and the wicked were separated. 
• "Limbo of the Fathers" is one of the terms that has been used (along with "Abraham's bosom" [Luke 16:22]) for the "good part" of Sheol

Death as Unnatural, Not Intended by God

• C.S. Lewis quote from God in the Dock