The sick, shaken look returned for the second time when the news media descended, demanding his "reaction" to his brother's self-inflicted death.
She had not expected or wanted to be saved at the last moment from self-inflicted death as she had been once before.
How free can the choice of self-inflicted death be for one who by definition is in extremis?
After an inquest, the Vancouver coroner called it a "self-inflicted but accidental death."
But the number of suicides in the military has been slowly climbing since 1992, when there were 218 self-inflicted deaths in the armed forces.
Until about five years ago, self-inflicted deaths among teen-agers were thought to be leveling off.
Her early, self-inflicted death gave a tragic dimension to all that came before.
"Better a self-inflicted death than being torn apart by the manarei."
Entire fortifications must fall without a fight, in an insane cataclysm of fratricidal murder or self-inflicted death.
Amid the overall increase in self-inflicted death for 2009, the government claims there have been encouraging signs since September.