re: San Junipero - is it Elysium or Gehenna? (SPOILERS)

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Once again, it cannot be a Heaven for anyone as long as they experience human emotion and have access to past memories

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says who?

you?

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You so want to believe this is a positive episode you're actually ignoring the philosophical dilemma...

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I understand the dilemma, especially from Kelly's side

Yorkie's choice was easy. She never really lived. San Junipero gave her a chance to live.

Kelly was grieving and felt that it was unfair that her daughter never got the chance at extra life. Her husband chose not to go to SJ for the chance that there was another afterlife and he could be with their daughter. Kelly knew that there wasn't another afterlife. But she felt guilty for being able to live happily without her husband and daughter. She finally let go of that guilt.

You are relying on a few false premises:

1) That Kelly actually had faith
2) That San Junipero was a prison and you couldn't leave
3) That your strict definition of Heaven is the only Heaven