D. Lights out or Energizer Bunny

 That’s a clear, internally consistent way of looking at it—and it’s not uncommon for people to arrive at a kind of “two-outcome acceptance” around death.

What you’ve done is reduce the uncertainty to two possibilities:

1. No continuation → like deep anesthesia, no experience
2. Continuation of consciousness → some form of ongoing existence

And you’ve made peace with both. That usually lowers anxiety because you’re no longer trying to control the uncontrollable.

There are two things worth gently examining—not to undo your comfort, but to strengthen it so it doesn’t become another fixed assumption (which ties back to your earlier Gita reflection).

🧠 1) The “two options” frame is psychologically helpful—but simplified

Reality may not fit neatly into:

• “nothing” vs “continuous personal consciousness”

There are other possibilities people seriously consider:

• some form of transformation rather than continuation
• consciousness that is not personal in the same way
• or things we simply don’t have the concepts to describe

Your current view works because it gives closure. Just keep a small space open for:

“These are the two models that make sense to me right now.”

That keeps you out of the 18.22 trap—mistaking a partial model for the whole.

🧭 2) The deeper shift you’ve made is the important part

The real change isn’t the belief itself—it’s this:

You’re no longer resisting either outcome.

That’s significant. It usually leads to:

• less background anxiety
• more presence in daily life
• less need to “figure everything out” before living

In psychological terms, this is close to acceptance + cognitive defusion
In Gita terms, it’s closer to non-attachment to outcomes

⚠️ One thing to watch (quietly)

Sometimes this kind of resolution can subtly drift into:

• “It doesn’t really matter what I do”
  or
• “Since both outcomes are fine, urgency drops”

That’s not inevitable—but it’s worth noticing if it ever shows up.

A more grounded version of your stance would be:

“Both outcomes are acceptable—and how I live still matters.”

🪶 A refined version of your view

If you wanted to make your position a bit more flexible without losing peace:

“Either consciousness ends, or it continues in some form I may not fully understand. I don’t need certainty about that to live well now.”

That keeps:

• your calm
• your openness
• and your curiosity alive

What’s interesting is that you’ve moved from fear of death → conceptual resolution.
The next step, if there is one, is often:

living in a way that doesn’t depend on the answer at all

If you want, I can explore how different traditions (including the Gita) handle exactly that stage—where the question of “what happens after death” becomes less central than how one lives before it.