User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/The Shining and Room 237/@comment-26030957-20160511231144/@comment-25569708-20160513184007

Funny, my brother and I were watching the Shining a week ago and the ending scene came up. He was confused by it, but I theorized that once Jack died on hotel grounds, he was indeed "absorbed" into the hotel itself and is now doomed to haunt the hotel along with the rest of the ghosts. Either that, or the hotel is stuck on a "loop" of caretakers being influenced by ghosts and killing their families. It's pretty open-ended no matter how you look at it.