Best for everyone.

It's a mercy he went sudden and rational, same as he did.

The doctor says that, if he hadn't, he'd have been helpless and bedridden and, maybe, out of his head for another year.

He couldn't have lived longer'n that, at the most." "But you DON'T know, Aunt Keziah! You don't know what I--I AM to blame.
I'll never forgive myself.

And I'll never be happy again." "Yes, you will.