Ontology and Dante's Inferno

Ontology is the the philosophical study of the nature of being, reality, existence etc. as well as relations of being. Dante's Inferno, as a poem about the divine and the relationships between our earthly actions and the effects they have in our afterlife as well as the different states of being which humans go through can be analyzed very effectively through the view of an ontologist. First off the perspective which The Inferno creates for us of the relationship between this life and the next is relatively simple and hard to grasp. Like from a physics viewpoint our actions in this life have an equal and opposite reaction on our afterlife. The evil we do in this life is balanced out by the evil done to us in the next life. Although things might not seem fair, as fortune doesn't always favor the kind, fortune is fleeting- random- and only remains in life. Divine justice will have its way in the end. The nature of our being is more difficult to explain. Although it seems like our souls are basically our bodies but in a different dimension, we hear from the tree that our bodies will be returned to us during the reaping. This begs the question, what differs our souls from our bodies? Besides being able to reform (from getting cut in two etc.) and being immortal there doesn't really seem to be a difference. We can still get injured, feel pain, and everything else. Perhaps this is only the reality in hell- part of the eternal punishment. This varies greatly from the viewpoint of ghost whisperer (had a hard time thinking of any other example). In ghost whisperer ghosts seem to be free from divine punishment unless they are not sorry for their past wrongdoings and unwilling to repent. This goes along with the modern teachings of the church more so than Dante's Inferno seems to as well. Modern church teachings is that if you are truly sorry- even on your dying breath- that you are forgiven. Perhaps the harshness of The Inferno have to do with Dante's reasons for writing it. He was trying to write it to warn people and make them change their ways, almost like a scared straight program. Also ghosts in ghost whisperer are free from painful feelings associated with the body.