The original body has died. The original mind, however, is still very much alive.
not true, because the original mind which includes the original's "ability to become conscious" died with the original brain. You have a clone that is similar in every possible way, except they have their own "ability to become conscious" that is unique from that of the original.
It took you that long to realize?
no one has directly stated it, i've realized it for quite some time, im stating it now.
The object of discussion is a very unrealistic hypothetical situation. It's kinda pointless to keep to realism here.
last i checked this was a general threads section where we talk about real life, but the original post did very much explain that this was a hypothetical discussion about a hypothetical situation, i'll give you that.
Who cares about the instance as long as the program runs?
im not sure, why did 80% of the ppl vote that they didnt want to die and have some imposter "instance" take their place?
It truly cannot enlighten anyone. All you have given is three context-free terms that are linguistically close to whatever it is you are meaning (you didn't even specify what you are synonymizing), all of them proxying to at least one ill-defined concept ("alive" or "self"), which makes them even more ill-defined than they are already by lack of context. It's like trying to clarify the meaning of "dog" by saying that it is synonymous to "canine", "cat" and "dog with a tail".
no, that is all that you quoted, i elaborated and then gave those 3 as examples in the original post. Im not very good with words so i wrote whatever i "felt", most ppl can understand what i meant quite well if reading the original post and seeing what i was replying to.