Alive and dead at the edge of a black hole?

Question

When someone is heading into the event horizon, they basically become two-dimensional. As theory states, the person experiencing it would see nor feel anything happening, but just experiencing going into the event horizon, as the person watching it would see the person being evaporated, ionized, etc.

Now, here's what I don't get, after all that happens to you, all the particles and information that make you you are stored at the edge, still there, which means that the information is retrievable. How is this? wouldn't you go into the black hole, not staying at the edge?

Also, in theory that is considered true, if you are both alive and dead in the event horizon, does that mean that you would be alive forever, just experiencing falling and stuff?

I got this question while I was watching something about Stephen Hawking's theory that a black hole simply disappears, leaving no information behind on the Science Channel. Physicists where challenging it with this after reading a lot and coming up with this.

Answer 1

The event horizon of a black hole is what is called a "coordinate singularity", which is a point in space-time that appears to be a singularity in some coordinate systems, but isn't a true singularity. In the coordinate system of a stationary observer, all the points of the event horizon are at "infinite" time, so things moving towards the event horizon will appear never to reach it. But in the coordinate system of an observer actually falling towards the black hole, the event horizon is no different from any other point in space-time.

Answer 2

part of the answer to this question would be the location and state of the "observer"...
if you are observing, it won't be there, if you are not, then it is there and everywhere simultaneously...