1) Common sense not to commit suicide.

2) Gutless - if he came to that so called realisation after his wife went through with it. (Do read story again. I didn't miss it :P)

3) Dirty rotten scoundrel - if it was pre-meditated and he wasn't intending to commit suicide at all right from the start but merely wanted to be divorced from her, without long term commitment to pay alimony, misleading info to and trouble with his new girlfriend, etc. etc.

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