If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[Excited Penguin]

That's a laughable analogy, it doesn't concern itself with the topic at hand at all, so I have no idea what you hope to achieve with it. Let me know.

Analogies are dumb, because there is no incentive for the other person to partake if they are just an argumentative person rather than being interested in discussion.  At the same time, that's how my mind organizes ideas.  Probably leftover from basic logic where you just stick in A's and B's into the equation to try and break it.  Not conducive to communicating with folks like you, but it's what I've got.

What I hoped to achieve, is to flush the idea out for myself mostly.  Maybe it adds to someone else's thinking.  

And for me it worked, because rather than a picnic analogy, or a video game analogy I passed on, or a long thing on misapplying meaning, and social conditioning and a bunch of other stuff, I truncated it all down to:

Endings can be satisfying.  

That's the idea I think you're missing with your unhappy/mentally ill position.

Endings can only be satisfying when they are restricted to experienced instances, not to individuals. Therein lies the problem with your analogy. You are trying to equate the ending of a picnic with that of a life.

All analogies are imperfect by necessity, but this one doesn't serve any purpose at all when it ignores such an important characteristic of the thing the analogy is being applied to. That important characteristic is the extent of its finality. 

A good analogy is one that focuses on the relevant aspects of the object being compared in order to make a point. Your point is either lost on the reader or irrelevant to the argument at hand. Please, either clarify it or come up with a better analogy.