This poll is nonsensical.
I was not, I am. I will be not, I do not mind.
Yeah, I’ll let you know how bad it is after I have a full stomach every day and get to see my dog again. 
Of course, theoretically, if it’s a perfect paradise, I could just choose to spend eternity catching up on my dreamless sleeping, if that’s what floated my boat after awhile—I’ll try getting bored with watching supernovae in the gamma spectrum first, though.
An eternity of happiness? Um, sure, I guess I’d be overjoyed. This poll is sort of silly. You haven’t defined paradise and if you were to define it as “when you die you’ll basically be super awesome happy forever and ever and ever” then who the hell wouldn’t be overjoyed to go into a realm like that?
Thread fail.
Yet another poster who hasn’t looked at the results and seen that in fact some dopers don’t like that idea. If all the results ranged from cautiously optimistic to overjoyed then yeah, you’d have a point.
That’s only because you didn’t define paradise.
There were several posts along those lines. That’s quite different from:
I’m not at all keen the whole “eternity” part. I’d be fine with a few million or even billion years, or “as long as you like, but when you’re utterly sick of it you can end it”. But then I suppose you’d if lost memories as time went by it mightn’t be so bad. But to live forever, with no end, ever, infinity, would terrify me.
I would also depend on the definition of “paradise”. I image it could get boring fairly (comparative to the eternity) early in.
It might not be the green hills and angels on clouds that make you happy. Imagine a chip on the part of your brain that controls emotion, keeping you in a constant state of bliss. You wouldn’t ever get tired of it, it’d be constantly on overdrive.
I think it would be easier if Paradise included a reset button - in fact, that might be the only way to make it paradise. Imagine the best month of the life you have or wish you had. No major worries, no pain or illness for you or anyone in your private world, everyone you want could be there, you are young and have a brilliant future ahead of you. You don’t know you’re dead - you remember your past and so does everyone else. At the end of the month, you go to bed, wake up the next morning, and your world is reset so you believe it’s day one of your best month ever again.
I could live with that. Or whatever.
The only thing I want of death is an opportunity to be aware that I had died, and get a small chance to figure out what was really going on and how things will go as time unfolds. If I got a brief truthful guided tour of that kind of information, I’d then happily fade into oblivion.
But as that is not what this poll is about, I chose cautiously optimistic, as I am uncertain as to what “Paradise” entails as it relates to me, and “Eternity” doesn’t sound like much fun at all.
There is no afterlife. Your poll doesn’t cover that reality, so I can’t cast a vote.
Yup, that’s my problem. I mean, I’d like to watch humanity perfect the flying car and cure AIDS and see if the Giants ever win the Series and watch them land on Jupiter, but even that shit would get boring after a while. And then they’ll die out and I’m gonna have to go check out the Eloi and then who am I going to fantasize about banging?
If there is a Paradise, and it’s run by God, I’d have to accept the idea that God would actually be able to keep me amused forever, but as I sit here at my computer in 2010, I don’t see that happening.
Sounds like fun.