Hell Dead and Alive

Ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ ὁ μνημονεύων σου, ἐν δὲ τῷ ᾅδῃ τίς ἐξομολογήσεται; κ.τ.ἑ.  Ὁ μνημονεύων Θεοῦ τοῦ λέγοντος· Ἐγω εἰμι ἡ ζωὴ, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῷ θανᾴτῳ. Οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν τῷ θανάτῳ τῷ ἐσχάτῳ ἐχθρῷ Θεοῠ τυγχάνοντι μεμνῆσθαι σου· διὸ ῥῦσαί με ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἵνα πάλιν μνημονεύω σου. Διὰ τοῦτο δὲ καὶ οἱ πρὸ θανάτου ἁμαρτάνοντες οὐ μέμνηνται τοῦ Θεοῦ. Ἥτοι ἐν ᾅδῃ οὐδεὶς ἐξομολογήσεται, ἢ πάνυ ὀλίγοι· τοῦτο γὰρ ἐμφαίνει ἀπὸ ταύτης, καὶ μήποτε δια τό· Ἐλθέτω δὴ θάνατος ἐπ' αὐτοὺς, καὶ καταβήτωσσαν εἰς ᾅδου ζῶντες. Οἱ ζῶντες εἰς ᾅδου καταβαίνοντες μεμνῆσθαι δύνανται τοῦ Θεοῦ ὡς οὐκ ὄντες ἐν θανάτῳ, καὶ ἐξομολογεῖσθαι αὐτῷ.  Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος Ϛ' Source: Migne PG 12. 1176

For in death there is not one who is mindful of you; and in hell who confesses? 1 He who is mindful of the saying of God, 'I am the life,' 2 he is not in death. He is not in death which is the ultimate enemy of God, who is mindful of you; therefore save me from that, that again I may be mindful of you. And so those who before death are sinners are not mindful of God. Truly in hell no one confesses Him, or scarcely few. For because of this he declares, 'May death come upon them, and may they descend into hell alive.' 2 The living who are falling into hell are able to remember God  because they are not yet dead and confessing Him. Origen, On the Psalms, Psalm 6 1 Ps 6.6 2 Jn 14.6 3 Ps 54.16