Is it better to speak or to die?

I was once again watching Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name on Netflix. In one the scene, the professor Perlman(Michael Stuhlbarg) and Annella (Amira Casar) and Elio (Timothée Chalamet) snuggle on the couch while Annella translates from the Heptaméron, the 16th-century collection of fables by Marguerite de Navarre.

"A handsome young knight is madly in love with a princess. And she too is in love with him. Though she seems not to be entirely aware of it. Despite the friendship that blossoms between them or perhaps because of that very friendship, the young knight finds himself so humbled and speechless that he's totally unable to bring up the subject of his love. Till one day he asks the princess point blank, is it better to speak or to die?," Annella translates.

Is it better to speak or to die? This is quite tricky, isn't it? 

Is it better to risk rejection by pouring your heart out and confessing your feelings, or would 'dying' be easier and far less painful?

Fear of rejection, and staying silent both roads pass through sorrow, and lead to the same end. Since you're going to suffer no matter what, from heartbreak or from regret while dying, it's better to speak. 

Because if you speak you will have had the possibility of brief happiness. If you fail to speak, the summer will die out, leaving you only with regret.

-K Himaanshu Shuklaa..