[ He heaves a heavy sigh. Yeah, he's shitty at this kind of thing, but he at least has more understanding of emotions that this baby robot does, so he may as well give it a try. ]

Look - you're right about one thing, it's not you he's pissed at. Stages of grief and all that, you know? There's denial and anger in there, I don't remember the order, whatever. Point is, nothing anybody says is gonna make a difference until he's sorted it out for himself. You could've said all the right things and it wouldn't have made a difference.

People aren't very good at confronting their own mortality.

[ Tony's pretty sure he'd know, if those hellish few months he was sure he was dying are any indication. ]