Perhaps he only tortures the Ripper ones - a little bitterness might be fine now and again - and quick-kills all the other victims he must be killing to be eating people so often. Depends on what he's feeling like nomming that day.

I think he was previously all for her suicide - he genuinely seems to like her, and if anyone would understand the desire for a /dignified/ death it's Hannibal 'stylish cannibal' Lecter. He was less prepared, perhaps, for her to die in his office where difficult ethical questions like 'you were a doctor, why didn't…