He mentions that the author Régnier wrote in one of his short stories that no one who commits suicide fully knows why they do.
He writes that A Fool's Life describes his thoughts completely except for the "social factor" which he purposely omitted from the story.
He dismissed a variety of ways to commit suicide "for aesthetic and practical reasons".
Lastly, he reassures his friend that he does not want to elevate himself to the status of a god, but that he is no more than an ordinary man.
He remembers a conversation about "Empedocles on Etna" Kume and he had twenty years prior, in which he stated that he, at that time, did wish to be a god.