This exchange between you two in a quite funny way, illustrates our innate maternal/feminine and paternal/masculine nature and how it transcends age.
Men through their societies, constituted the most macabre forms of death, the Japanese with their Seppuku disembowelment rituals, the French with the guillotine, even the Arabs, etc etc. Even as individuals, men when given a choice between pills, carbon monoxide, jumping, belts, ropes, knives, handguns, they tend to opt for the most violent death attainable in their age. Leo Hirschfield, Ernest Hemmingway, Kurt Cobain, etc etc opted for a sown of shotgun to the head. The Greeks are a notable exception, but they were a "sus" lot occupied with their futo, even then, if they offered Socrates a shotgun instead of the hemlock, he would have taken it.
Now on the other side of our fairer half. They prefer a clean death or a silent death. Is it to spare loved ones? Like kittens who burry their mess, or an indication of a deeper connection to their flesh, which they are always opting to preserve. I dont really know, its also hard to look back into their history, for some time, I thought Cleopatra managed to convince a soldier like Marcus Anthony, to take his life along with hers, her way (poison) but I was wrong on that

. You have a long line of women who followed after though. For example Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Marilyn Monroe, Margaux Hemingway (yes, his granddaughter), and so on, who mostly opted for pills.
But then you would think they would not be preoccupied with mans macabre right? Nope. They particularly covet that dirty part of his mind. From crime shows to imprisoned Serial killers who had fan clubs. We really were made for each other.