“And indeed the doom that is closing on us both, has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever re-induce that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. Will Hyde die upon the scaffold? or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment? God knows; I am careless; this is my true hour of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”

This quote is part of the last paragraph and more specifically the last words that Jekyll provides to the reader. In this last section we can see that the creation of Edward Hyde has created a monster, leading Henry Jekyll to take drastic measures to ensure the safety of those around him. Jekyll as he is about to live out his final moments still thinks of how he may be bested by Hyde, if that this suicide would truly kill them both. The piece that I am still wondering about is that Jekyll only comments on his own life ending, not that of Hyde. Jekyll had never recognized Hyde as a person, more so as a creature and monster due to his nature being inherently evil, but Hyde is part of Jekyll. For Jekyll to disregard part of himself in Hyde, is this due to his own fallacy that he could keep himself whole and not split, even at the moments of death. 

Could there have been another way for Henry Jekyll to escape the life of Edward Hyde? Was suicide the only option?  Is there a possibility that Hyde saved himself?