Success, then...is a range of timelines, I would hope? Few decisions are clear-cut.

[He still doesn't like that there are living, breathing humans whose sole existence is for a certain thing. He could have said no when invited to Heaven and he would have just lived and died like a normal person. Any of these youths say no and...they were never born? Even if they are all people who wouldn't, that's what strikes him as unfathomably cruel, that they exist for a single express purpose, in a way that humans very specifically should not, by the things in humanity he holds most dear.

Sorry, Davesprite - on this subject, he must be horrified, and pitying, and sad; it goes against the grain of who and what he is.]