I believe the knowledge that you are eternally separated from God will be terrible enough. It isn't necessary for those who shall be judged and rejected to suffer forever, an infinite number of discrete days, weeks, months, years, jubilees, centuries, millennia, ages, eons, etc. Eternity is enough, even if your existence is extinguished without a long experience of suffering. The final answer of knowing you failed is shame in ultimate reality. Who would really be defiant forever? Only one who stands on pride, pretending it to be dignity.
Even Satan knows the Lake of Fire is ultimately permanent. Is he going to sulk in eternal hate and bitterness forever without end, literally UN-ABLE even to accuse his own conscience and wish he could repent? Perhaps. He is a different kind of creature.
A loving, merciful, and compassionate God could eventually relent and allow us, humans, to be finally extinguished. After all, why would he forever sustain our contingent being just to watch us suffer? Couldn't He at least offer one last final mercy for those who have had enough? Forever torture is just spiteful and cruel, something I would expect from Allah, not YHWH.
Look at the difference between eternity and forever. As I see it, Eternity and Forever are like two distinct dimensions of time. Eternity is when you try to observe how many fractions can be made between two whole numbers. It's Depth. Forever is counting a sequence to infinity one whole number at a time. It's Distance. If you put them together, you get Everlasting, time as God sees it.
"Eli, Eli! Lema sabachtani!" My God, my God! Why have you abandoned me?! Yes. Jesus took our punishment on the cross. He experienced the curse of being separated from God in the infinite depth of time, and then He descended into Sheol to call those who would believe, who honored God. At last, when the third day was darkest, God raised Him from the dead so that He could save us, too, from that terrible fate. Repent, and believe the Gospel!
After all, Jesus warned us that God could destroy us, body and soul, in Hell. Three days is very long in eternity's "deep time." We who made it to Heaven will not be saddened to remember that our erstwhile companions are still justly suffering punishment, whether in the outer darkness or the fires of Hell. If we ever recall them, we can know, they are gone for good.
Those who were wronged here can be satisfied that Justice has been served in proportion to the severity of the crime. Or, if we ourselves deserve punishment for pursuing selfish desires, we should fear the ending of our souls, feeling how ephemeral we are, as we pass away without any true meaning.
As a Christian, I do believe in final annihilation for those not saved. So long as they're not among those who deliberately deceived others to follow evil and falsehood, they can avoid everlasting torment. The Antichrist and the False Prophet, however, will keep Satan company in the Lake of Fire.
Our existence has always been dependent on God to sustain us because we are contingent beings. If God ceases to support us, we die. If He ceases to keep us in being, we shall cease to exist. The final mercy He can give us shall be to let us exit his plan and have an ending.
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