 It is divided into two parts named "The Doctrine" and "The Examples".The first part explains the different view Spiritism has on the subject, stating that both "Heaven" (happiness in the afterlife) and "Hell" (punishment in the afterlife) are misconcepts, that the state of the spirits after their death is not definitive and that there is always hope, even for the crudest criminal.This is also where Kardec explains in detail why and how "good people" are doomed to suffer and why one should not take one's own life.