"Alright," he said, happy to get off the topic of shitty parents. "What do you suggest, then? For the first intentional time I die? Maybe a bullet to the head? Decapitation? Huh, maybe we can figure out if the head does keep thinking after it's cut off?" He'd read that in a particularly macabre book on the French Revolution in history class and had been rather morbidly fascinated ever since.
"I mean, we might as well make it interesting, right?"
And maybe making it interesting would give him something to concentrate on other than the dying part.