As I’ve mentioned in several previous columns, I don’t believe there’s a hereafter or next life or whatever else you choose to call the place that human souls are supposed to go when their owners shuffle-off the mortal coil.

But in case I’m mistaken, the death of high-profile killers and crooks like the late ex-president of Indonesia, Mohammed Suharto, always sets me wondering what their post-mortem existence might have in store for them.

Are they greeted at the pearly gates, like the recently-deceased in those ever-popular St Peter jokes, to be summarily judged on their records and consigned for all eternity to heaven or, if there’s any justice at all in eternity, to hell?