monkeys and ponies

The only way I was able to come up with to make it end "happily" was to find a way to download the team's consciousness into new bodies -- though if you push that concept further, it might not make things any less dark than the original. There'd still be the problem of people knowing they'd been dead and had their memories wiped repeatedly, and that now they were in these new bodies, when they died, there wouldn't be an afterlife.

It's an interesting concept to think about, but man, is it depressing.