Speaking personally, I don't want to change in ways that result in my not being me anymore. The premise of the heaven scenario is more that one's personality is sterilised and made to conform to everyone else's. Short of adding jackboots, I can't imagine a more inhuman and horrific proposal, let alone why it should be flaunted as desirable.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
