Something like that. The void is...well, it's what it sounds like. There's nothing there, and there's no coming back from it. It's just you and your thoughts for the rest of eternity. I think you can get where that'd be punishment if someone screwed up so badly they didn't deserve another shot.
But sometimes -
[And he hesitates for a moment, and it's brief but it's still there, even if he shakes it off well enough.]
Sometimes people choose to go there. And that can be for depressing reasons, and a lot of the time it is, but sometimes it's because there's nothing else for them to get out of life, you know? They got everything they wanted, they don't have any unfinished business, they don't have any regrets or despair or whatever.
So in cases like that it's not bad, you know? I'm not going to be cute and say that it is what you make of it, but it doesn't have to be Hell. It's just easier to explain it that way - Heaven or Hell, reincarnation or the void, to most people it makes more sense that way.
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But sometimes -
[And he hesitates for a moment, and it's brief but it's still there, even if he shakes it off well enough.]
Sometimes people choose to go there. And that can be for depressing reasons, and a lot of the time it is, but sometimes it's because there's nothing else for them to get out of life, you know? They got everything they wanted, they don't have any unfinished business, they don't have any regrets or despair or whatever.
So in cases like that it's not bad, you know? I'm not going to be cute and say that it is what you make of it, but it doesn't have to be Hell. It's just easier to explain it that way - Heaven or Hell, reincarnation or the void, to most people it makes more sense that way.