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Before I answer: I agree with you and would rather be destroyed than given immortality in any form.
Dante addresses the concept of heaven best in my opinion, via Paradiso. I recommend reading it for yourself, but he essentially says that the personality just gets sucked out of people and their only purpose in existence is to love god forever. Any thoughts or motivations that would have motivated them to sin on earth are just gone.
>In His will is our peace; that is the sea to which all things move — both what it creates and what nature makes.
>Within that sphere alone is every part where it always was, for it is not in place, nor does it rest on any pole; our ladder reaches to that holy height, where every part is blessed with the same joy, as each reflects the flame of the Eternal.
The way most people (and myself) interpret this is that God's will and the will of people in heaven are not longer separate. Everyone in heaven is a husk; they are robbed of their free will the moment they die. Ironically, the sinners down in hell - while suffering in other ways - retain their sense of self more than those in heaven do.
Frankly, I see these as the only two ways in which humans can suffer immortality: intentional torture or by altering them to the point that they are fundamentally no longer human. In other words, you either like the fact that they are suffering, or you take away their ability to suffer in the first place.
I'd rather just return to nothingness, thanks.