"No," he says, softly. "I will not."

This is not the time for our lives have no guarantees. Even if it's true.

Because it's also true that their lives do have the guarantee of not if I can avoid it, not if I can spare you that, I will fight with everything I can.

It's what there is. And he did kill himself once (and maybe twice, depending on how you count); any honest guarantee is worth saying.