Free will in Heaven?

[GonnaBeAPriest]

When a person dies, is the Catholic belief that free will no longer exists? By this I mean, (and I know I'm simplifying greatly) a person dies, then goes to heaven, would they then still have free will....in this case to reject God and be sent out of heaven (presumably to hell)?

[cappie]

Free will always exixts a gift given by God is not taken back.

From the Catechism:

[i]1704 The human person participates in the light and power of the divine Spirit. By his reason, he is capable of understanding the order of things established by the Creator. By free will, he is capable of directing himself toward his true good. He finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good."

1711 Endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will, the human person is from his very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal beatitude. He pursues his perfection in "seeking and loving what is true and good" (GS 15 § 2).

1731 Freedom is the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility. By free will one shapes one's own life. Human freedom is a force for growth and maturity in truth and goodness; it attains its perfection when directed toward God, our beatitude.[/i]

The rational being is always attracted by what is apprehended as good. Pure evil, misery as such, man could not desire. In heaven we experience the clear vision of God which is the immediate knowledge of God which the angelic spirits and the souls of the just enjoy in Heaven. . And since in beholding God face to face the created intelligence finds perfect happiness, the vision is termed "beatific" and .would necessarily preclude all volition at variance with this object, the Infinite Good we call God