I'm pissed

I just watched it and thought for sure he was gonna decide to live boy was I wrong...cried like a baby.

I agree. I was devastated. I feel that he obviously didn't love her like she did him. Choosing death over love shows it. And on the other side, choosing to be there for the final goodbye of someone you love deeply even though it hurts every fiber of your being, that shows how much she truly loved him.

I feel like someone has cheated on me.
I just wish I would have switch off the movie just before the ending began, and then just lived in a lie that the movie would have ended differently.

I'm devastated...
I feel lonely and miserable just watching this movie..
Sure, I understand he's pain, somehow, but still.
I became in love with their love to each other...

You know there is more to live than finding romantic love. It seemed to me that before everything else his first actual love was his freedom. His ability to live fully without restrictions. She couldn't give him his life back. He was still miserable. If youve ever felt true joy anything else pales in comparisson by miles. He had experienced so much. To know you never could feel that way again. I mean really he was paralyzed from the neck down. He couldnt even love her properly because of it. Imagine loving someone so much and not being able to touch them and fullfill them fully. Thats even worse. Have some perspective yall.

What a simplistic view. As a social worker who has worked with paraplegics and quadriplegics for about 6 years now, I can see why he made the choice that he did. The excruciating pain that some of these people are in is something that I can't even fathom. I have seen first hand how the longer they live, the more they are in and out of the hospital for various reasons even with the best care. The wounds that can develop which usually lead to sepsis and then death. It's not about choosing death over love. It's knowing that the longer he's alive, the sicker and even more disabled he may become. He knows that he would not be able to give her the kind of life she deserves and sooner or later there would be resentments harbored, by either one.

I was angry after I watched it...

He explained exactly why in that conversation on the beach that night. It wasn't about her; he already knew he missed his able-bodied life so badly that that would never change and would always cause him mental and emotional agony.

Even finding such a wonderful love in his life made very little difference to that other, far greater impact in his life.

He needed to do what he wished to do.