Marion Turner offers to help Robert die but he saids "no not yet" why,after all hes been though why didnt he want to die?

Taking pity on him, Marian Turner offers him a way out, euthanasia. Despite all he has lost, Robert clings to life and, symbolically, to hope. Though he has been physically broken his spirit endures. He finds some comfort in Juliet's presence until he dies at the young age of twenty-six.