If you think the conclusion's inevitable, is dying by another's hand any more dignified than reaching that "natural" end? Especially if you view it as fleeting, if we're to assume that we know all there is to know about this, I'm not sure I'm seeing where we'd be helping here.

[ Yuri, for his part, has never trusted what they're given. Never will, for all that ignorance is purposefully maintained among them. Not to mention that disturbing little tidbit D turned up.

What if, in destroying these realms, they feed into that? ]

Were it me, I'd want every moment I was due. But I can't say what they want. Can either of us?