[varjag]

Naturally. Same way samurai committed seppuku on their own volition too: it was clearly a way to part amicably, no need to call security.

[tptacek]

Obviously, no. The more apt comparison would be to a samurai choosing between continuing to serve his Daimyo, or eating the world's most delicious cinnamon roll. None of the options on the table were comparable to disembowelment. Reasonable people can disagree about which option was the cinnamon roll.