Good grief. Do people actually sit around and think this crap up?!?!?! YES Mr. Dummy, this guy is going to hell if he never accepted Christ as his LORD and Savior! Period. There IS NO OTHER WAY. I think Yeshua made that plain and simple in the Bible.
I don't think that's the point of Giles' article. Giles is pointing out that the media and Hollywood version of what happens after death is inconsistent with Christ's actual teaching, and is also concerned about the obvious sinfulness of PSH's abandoning his kids to pursue an addiction, which Hollywood's version seems to forgive without bothering to give credits to the Author of salvation.
Giles contends that only by surrendering to the Savior was he himself able to overcome addiction, and that at least his journey was not further impeded by media and Hollywood claiming that you can bypass all that repentance stuff and just get straight to Heaven anyway, because to them it's all make-believe and computer-enhanced imagery written in a script that you can act, so, yeah! Junkie Dad's in Heaven!
The media has been conflating the fact that Hoffman was loved or admired for his works here on earth with his heaven-worthiness in God's eyes. It's a pernicious untruth.
Nevertheless, none of us knows what is in the mind of God regarding this troubled actor, or anyone else, for that matter.
The Bible indicates that until the Final Judgment, there is an interval wherein people who have died are in a state of consciousness after physical death, and will have to account for everything they did and said on earth. That being the case, perhaps Hoffman can still repent; I just don't know how that works, and have been trying to fit all the repentance I can into my conscious days on earth, even though the task is monumental when you stop to think about the misery of the human condition, mine and everyone else's in this fallen world. That is why we need a Savior, and our hope is in Him. Hoffman was raised Catholic, and one hopes that after death his mind is clear enough to see how badly he hurt his children and their mother and his own mother. Is that purgatory, or a descent into hell? I'm not seeing face to face, but through a glass darkly.