Oh, certainly. But yes, that's the part I'm curious about. Does anyone who dies here then disappear from their own world? Or are the versions of us here just duplicate copies that no longer have any effect on what happens in the places we came from?

[ ...Is he now a fractured version of himself, basically. ]

I think they're probably obscuring the answer to that question on purpose to give themselves more leeway on coming up with motives.