Suicide

What does it mean when pilot chooses to walk into the biomass queue? To turn away from all that we are in a fashion so final?

I should ask a shaman or a shrink, I suppose. I don't want to. What would they know of this?

She was not close to me: her adopted kin were closer.

Is it weakness; unable to bear the life? Or the ultimate power; to say to an immortal "Cease!"?