People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.