[He falls silent for a minute or two.]

...but the thing is... I'm a replica. A weak one. It was inevitable that my life was going to be a short one. I didn't want to die knowing I hadn't been able to accomplish something... to do something meaningful with this life I'd been given... something other than living as a replacement for someone who had died.

[He bows his head.] That's why... I was happy to have died in the way that I did. In a way that I wanted to.