Can There Be Repentance in the Final Judgement?

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Read Luke 16:19-31(Lazarus and the rich man). It is a clear picture that once you’re dead you’re judged.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
 
Yeah, but when their being judged, if they were really bad in life, they will wish they could have repented while on earth.
 
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If our possibility for repentance is due to our corporeal reality (and hence this is why the demons cannot repent), then it follows that those in Hell cannot repent.
However, in the Final Judgement, our bodies are reunited with our soul, presumably in a way very similar to now and not a glorified way as this includes the souls and bodies of the damned. However, after this, that means we would be corporeal again. Would this mean we then have the possibility of repentance? I feel like the official answer is no though I am unsure. Well? Would the possibility of repentance in the Final Judgement be? Why or why not?
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Your feeling about the “official answer” is correct. It’s no. All regret and sorrow, for our sins that keep us from heaven, (mortal sins) have to take place on this side of eternity.

1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, “eternal fire.” The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
 
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