The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of? - Ursula K. Le Guin

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

To be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.