"Usually death is something scary or bad, but Keats is hurt by whatever he's suffered, and so he's sort of ... asking for death, calling for it. It almost sounds romantic, the way he puts it."

Billy was quiet for a while, he didn't want to upset Anne again but he continued anyway. "Near the end for me, I was depressed all the time, nothing made me feel better: not my music, not alcohol. All I wanted was to stop feeling bad, and death seemed like the easiest way. It was almost seductive."