emunah

— I've seen cases in which #1 might possibly be true, though the only way to do so would entail something like suicide of the soul anyway. And who knows, maybe the idea is that such a person will have it "made up" to them in Olam HaBa. But there's emuna and there's emuna. The emuna that's strong enough for a person to willingly shrivel up into a living death in return for a better room on the other side seems awfully rare to me.