It was a worse death than just letting them die here.
In the last scene the Monster dies the worse death of all.
For another even worse death just a few weeks later?
Two choices, both bad, the second promising a worse death than the first.
From then on, his world would never be paradise again, and he knew that was the worst death of all.
If he died seeing this, certainly there were worse deaths.
"Are the deaths you speak of any worse than death on a spike?"
"These few bad deaths must be considered a medical emergency," he said.
You have heard that old saying "a fate worse than death"?
Nothing focuses the attention like the proximity of a bad death.