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I also took it that if its suicide they just put you in the last queue, since the goal is to bring back every mutant anyway, and the Crucible is just a way for people to get priority in resurrection.

No, the crucible was to instill a cult-like fanaticism to their new culture. They were to believe that they had to earn the gift that was taken from them, and it was through this trail they were to be reborn as "worthy". It was two bird with one stone. They get to slow down the resurrection queue and do some peer pressure by holding the happiness of their people hostage. It's messed up. Imagine telling a black person that you had to earn your freedom you once had by dying for it....oh, and it was other free black people telling you this.

It's wrong, considering how many mutants have their sense of self defined by their powers. It's akin to breathing for them, and yet here's Apocalypse telling you to earn your right to breath.