I feel the problem stemmed from the original ideas held by the founder of the WT movement, CT Russell. Seeing himself as standing apart from "Christendon" and unable to reconcile a God of Love with his faulty concept of a burning hell, he supplied a definition of "resurrection" that was ultimately inadequate.
He defined the word "resurrection" as "Being brought back to life" Period. In this definition, if a person does survive death albeit in some other form, a spirit, say, then that person was already "alive" and there would therefore be no need to "resurrect" him/her. To solve this problem, since CTR was no deep thinker in the mold of the Greek thinkers of antiquity, nor did he have any theological or philosophical training,he assumed that the person had to be totally dead in his/her very being. Which leads to annihilation, a state of non existence, nothingness.
In this respect he failed to see that there was indeed no continuity between the two states of being before and after "resurrection" The being who is "resurrected" has no continuous link of the psyche, the ego, id, call the essential kernal of human existence whatever you want, with the one who died. He/she is like the person who died, even to the extent of being 100% like him/her. But the reality is that they are two different persons. The original simply no longer exists.
If Russell had consulted even a basic theological dictionary, written for 5 yr olds, rather than rely on his own human reasoning, he would have read that "Resurrection" means "Bringing back to life of the body" The real cruelty of death is that it does something that was never originally intentended to be: The seperation of the "outer" person with the "inner" or "psyche" Evidently this state of being, called by some theologians the "intermediate" state is a cause of sorrow and brings on a sense of weariness, where the resurrection of the body is awaited. [Rev 6:9,10] Joining the two, which is what the resurrection describes, keeps that continuity intact.
The most diabolical part of the WT view is what they really teach about Christ Jesus. When He died he too was annihilated.In other words, passed into nothing.He ceased to exist.When "He" was resurrected by jehooverver, the memory banks that constituted His previous existence, His computer software programme [which remember has no personality, it is merely an abstaction], if you like, was implanted into another being created by jeehoover.
So the guy who is sitting at gods right hand at this moment, and evidently conversing merrily with the "annointed ones" who have gone before, is an imposter. He did not die for you and me. He merely has the memory of that person implanted into him. The Jesus who died for you and me simply no longer exists.
Grotesque. And I actually believed this stuff.
Cheers