I think everybody who is alive, as long as they are alive, in the back of their mind?

and deep in their soul know that there is a God. Weather they admit it or not, I also think that while we are alive a HOPE is always there that at least at the last minute we can be saved. We are optomistic as long as we are alive but, as soon as we die we are faced with the certainty that our hope is gone forever because we missed our chance to turn to God. My question is, could this be some of the eternal torment? The realization that hope even is gone?