Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-120.150.122.171-20140518070125/@comment-675805-20180324081551

I don't think Epsilon felt any pressing need to purge those from his system. Alpha created the fragments out of stress, I don't think it's something you can simply force to happen like what Epsilon did.

Also, Alpha, Epsilon and Director Church really aren't all that different even if they're not the same person. Both of them were frankly suicidal because of the mistakes Director Church made and even Epsilon seemed to share this sentiment. Alpha and Epsilon sacrificed themselves because they felt as though they had nothing left to lose and Director Church pulled the trigger because of both this and the fact that the weight of his sins was a burden too great to bear, which is something that both Alpha and Epsilon may have also both felt responsible for in spite of them ultimately being his victims in the whole thing, rather than the ones directly responsible.