Requiem's ending

[CanT]

If you don't want to collect the artefacts you may just edit last savegame It's in "%My Documents%\Penumbra\Requiem\save\spot\%last_created_file%" at the line <var type="2" name="mlStat_Collectables" val="[number_of_artefacts]" />

Spoiler below!

Anyway I didn't understand the ending, because my english not so well. Is that truth that Philip choose death 'coz he became a "real human" and don't want to return to the "herd" that is living on surface?..

If it's then why they show us Philip's body near the PC? I thought the only thing that could stay after him is ash