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So much can change your reaction, though. How close you are to someone, or how much time you have to think about it. And then having it be your own death changes everything again. [Does that sound hypothetical? Or at least general?]
I definitely have seen it as a complete end in the past - that's why I couldn't just say 'an exit' and leave it at that. But my opinion's been changed by a lot of things.