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Actually I never brought this up in my opening post, but Option A also has the added consequence of physically seeing your own funeral. If you just died with a white-room-amnesia then seeing yourself and the repercussions for 2 years might severely unnerve you.

That's also another thing to consider guys. It's a consequence of lingering.

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Note that "funeral" includes:
- The wake ceremony where people can see your body before the funeral prior.
- The funeral service proper.
- The first 2 years of the people in your life after the funeral. But only as an observer. No haunting. No possession. No interaction. They will NOT be able to feel your presence.
- When the 2 years are over, you will be forced into the beyond. Whatever that is, is up to your beliefs.
- However, you will retain these collected thoughts even though your memory will be wiped (see below). They will linger as notions and emotions such as "vengeance" or "obsession with ". You won't know why though.

^That is what the first choice entails.

Just to clear things up:
- There is no hurry to goto the afterlife but the time spent waiting will only be reserved for making the choice. The question is not about whether you will stay, but it is whether you will care to stay for the things you'll leave behind.
- Staying to "think about your decision" simply means you are in a pseudo-purgatory state. You will still be an observer incapable of affecting anything in the mortal realm. The moment your mind even gets an inkling of either choice, it will fling you there whether you are prepared or not.
- The option to stay forever is not allowed. An Eternity for someone could mean another duration for someone else.
- Note that if you picked the first option, you will still be moving on anyway. The difference is, you will be saddled with the burdens of your own death.
- Finally, assume that everyone thinks that no one is going to hell, the option to go there is still open anyway and really is it for us to judge? Going to hell is irrelevant to the question because it happens after you "move on".
- You actually have no idea when and how you "died". Having to choose Option A means you will get to find out; perks of the choice. You just sort of appeared in this situation as a dead guy. So, there is no provision as to being able to choose depending on how you died.

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Actually, looking back into this, I'm confused on what exactly you mean. If I'm dead, and viewing my own funeral, then am I not a spectre? A ghost? A phantasm? If I'm not, then what exactly am I, if this is my funeral? Did I reincarnate in the past, momentarily able to recall my former life at the time of my death? I ask also, because how would I realistically/hypothetically/whatever, get to view for the next two years how everyone who cared for me goes about their lives? I figured I was dead and semi-omniscient before moving on to some great beyond to become somebody else with lingering relics of semi-memory from my past life. If that's incorrect, I'll need some clarification on just what is actually happening.

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As I already mentioned, you don't get the luxury to think about what you are nitpicking on right now. You don't get to plan that far ahead or believe that being a spectre and choosing Option A are 2 different things. It is the Choice that's the concern, and your overanalysis will lead you to nowhere.

Quote from Hewitt

- There is no hurry to goto the afterlife but the time spent waiting will only be reserved for making the choice. The question is not about whether you will stay, but it is whether you will care to stay for the things you'll leave behind.
- Staying to "think about your decision" simply means you are in a pseudo-purgatory state. You will still be an observer incapable of affecting anything in the mortal realm. The moment your mind even gets an inkling of either choice, it will fling you there whether you are prepared or not.