Is this a trick question...?

[But he sighs through his nose, pausing a moment to think about it. Both of those are things he doesn't even want to consider as possibilities. That's a decision between two terrible things.]

I don't think either is worse than the other, [he says finally, brows knitting together again as he glances toward the other boy.] No matter how you look at it, "you" wouldn't be you anymore.