Well, he was a maverick, to be sure. And he was a Libertarian and freedom mattered to him. At 75, with the news of being extradited to the US with a life sentence in prison to look forward to? It's not unthinkable that he decided that he just didn't want that... and that the "I'll never commit suicide" statements was his "insurance policy" to guarantee that people would continue to rail against the system in his name...

Then again, maybe he's on a plane to Argentina, even as we speak... I wonder if we'll ever know?