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Another way to think about it may be in terms of conservation of experience. You cannot really be comforted by the fact that many copies of you exist in other places, because one of those copies must experience and retain the memory of this horrible event.
But it result in even more complex moral problems.
1) I am really uncomforted with the fact that other people had suffered unbearable suffering (true about me).
2) In the infinite universe should exist infinite number of my copies which experience all types of sufferings. F... :(