Jax is not the type of person who kills himself. Shitty ending.
He should have gone out like 240 describes or like a real gun fight.
Jax was the whiniest, most self-engrossed, selfish person the entire series. Oh, it's all about his feelings, his emotions, blah blah. Suddenly he decides on suicide? Stupid.
I hope sutter reads this thread and secretly re-films the last 5 minutes of the show. Release it as a "web short". Jax saves up blood in a little mini-fridge at the bike shop. He paints his bike with the stored blood, and drives it off a 500 foot gorge, fiery explosion down mountain into water. Presumed dead by that weak ass police force, convinced Jax was going to suicide it. He hitch hikes with Vic Mackey/Milos, and smirks as he drives past the hapless sheriffs examining the exploded bike crime scene. "Where you headed?" asks Milos. "I've got big plans..." says Jax, and it fades out.
Jax gets to close all those stories up neatly, he might return for his kids one day, and the viewer is intrigued with "woah, wasting all those people and faking death was only the warmup... I wonder what his BIG PLANS are?"
Mr Sutter - Go film that. The fans deserve the alternate ending.