I want to write more, both an IC post for the companions' scene and a bit more elaborate OOC post on this, but my hands hurt pretty badly today. My fingers won't move right... writing is difficult. Bad weather must be on the way... maybe.

There were a few things that I thought I wanted to address immediately, though, the first one being that the "extreme moral opposites" I refer to doesn't include dead spirits; these are indeed just as varied in the growth of their Seeds of Good and Evil as living mortals, and can be anywhere on the spectrum depending on their own perception of their actions and other's opinion of those (there are even some who live by such twisted personal morals, and are surrounded by people who share similar morals, who end up not fitting into the spectrum at all; these share the fate of certain other unfortunate souls and achieve an afterlife in the Spirit Realm rather than the Upper or Lower Planes). The extreme opposites are not the dead spirits, but the immortals: gods, angels and demons. When a dead spirit desires to cease to exist, practically committing suicide, they become immortals, and thus the immortal faction they join benefits from it. That is what I meant.
And yeah, I meant other versions of afterlife outside of the world of the Prophecy... though even within the Prophecy, there are a few other options, usually specific to the worship of some particular deities.

And I agree; I have mentioned this before, but I certainly would prefer to keep living, regardless of the alternatives. I want to live forever if possible, which is why research in means to achieve longevity fascinates me. They already have drugs that can literally reverse aging in rats; I am hopeful that I'll find a way to stay alive indefinitely before dying. (I write "I'll" because I am not naïve enough to think that longevity, even if a means to obtain it is found, would be easily acquired by any means. If everyone lived forever, that'd be a problem. So I consider it my own job to find a way to earn that longevity once it becomes obtainable.)