I love Padre Pio who said that God is not bound by time and space and so it made perfect sense to him to pray for someone who lays dying, even if he died years ago. I pray daily for the brother of my daughter in law who died at the age of 18 in a motorcycle accident. I never knew him but by all accounts he was a wild child and I doubt whether he was in a state of grace. I will not accept that Jesus, my merciful savior, let Chris go to hell.
Yay, Padre Pio!
Time and space are subject to God, not He to them. So we cannot speak with certainty about before, after, then, or now when we speak about Him to whom all places are here and all times now.
As to Chris or any we love, we know that God desires all to bexsaved and that he takes no pleasure in the death of those who do not turn and live.
He knows what He’s doing.