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Death can also be a means of escape. He didn't like his life or anyone in it, except for the dealer. And since the dealer was going to jail, he didn't see a reason to live.
Then again I think it's better not to be so pessimistic xD
I dont know where the other people here got the idea that the student died because of the crack in the ice, oh dear. It seems to me that the Boy run away again to the farthest who knows where land to ESCAPE in all these problems or worries he had and i think it is also because that drug dealer guy didn't Love him or not totally because he isn't responding when the boy tells he loves him. And then the drug dealer must have been submit himself to the police not because of the request of the boy but because of the boy himself. Well in short they Both ESCAPE holding the experiences they learned when they were still together.