What was Puccini's attitude toward death?

Question

In Tosca, the title heroine jumps off the roof in order to avoid being prosecuted.

In Girl of the Golden West, Johnson tells his captors that if they released him, he would die at his own hand.

In Turandot, Liu is captured by the palace guards and ordered to reveal her master's secret name. In fear of losing her will, she grabs a knife from one of her captors and kills herself.

I'm beginning to notice a pattern. Do you suppose Puccini himself was afraid of being killed, and considered it preferable to kill himself?

He certainly killed himself by smoking too many cigars!

Answer 1

Very original theory. And you even forgot Butterfly's harakiri.
Unfortunately, Mimì dies of tuberculosis, Manon of consumption in the desert, Luigi is strangled for jealousy in the Tabarro and Suor Angelica dies upon being rescued to heaven by her dead secret son. Throat cancer could be possibly an effect of smoking, but for a fact, Tosca jumps off a castle, not a roof.