‘But what about the pain?’ he wondered. ‘Where’s it gone? Hey, pain, where are you?’
His one final decision, as an act of redemption for having lived his whole life in a lie and a self inflicted delusion, was to release his family from the heavy burden he had become. He chose to embrace the darkness, the endless pain, and the silent void that led him to the end of his hopelessness, despair, and anguish. What he found there was death, at last.
