Yeah, I think Martha mentions it off handed sometime in her run as well (or at the least, someone mentions it). Or asks if he has a death wish.
Yeah, that whole bit was a little over dramatic given everything that had already happened in the episode XD His whole not wanting to go thing was very much of a lot of what he had been through up until that point, though. Which was a pretty giant roller coaster ride, tbh, but Ten's pretty unique among all three so far in of how emotional he was, and by extent, how human he had become upon Nine's regeneration and how attached he was to his 'life'. No spoilers, but conditions of Nine's regeneration sort of lent themselves to creating an incarnation who did interact with the companions (and others around them) a lot more and in a way, it was the probably the closest canonical point we got where he actually wanted desperately to be human, and got incredibly close to that point over the course of his run. Like, Ten even had romantic relationships of large enough impact and he's very distinctly human in how he recognizes social cues and habits and I think it gives him a sort of anchor to hold onto in the aftermath of the Time War. It's kind of reflected even in the companions- he's in love with Rose, negligent to Martha, and fantastic with Donna, but the point is that he loses all of his relationships in the end. Even when the Master blips up for a little and there's another Time Lord for a tiny bit, the Master also leaves in the end, leaving Ten alone again- in a sense, the only remainder to connect him to everyone around him, since with the regeneration, it would be just like dying since those connections would in a sense, be very much dead and gone and with them, the tethers to everyone he had lost over the years, even though he ultimately realizes that he's slowly losing himself due to being so human. Which is a bit of why Eleven had turned out the way he did- looking back at Ten with that level of humanity and seeing what it did to him and how everyone did leave him, just steps so far away from it as to prevent it from happening again.
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Yeah, that whole bit was a little over dramatic given everything that had already happened in the episode XD His whole not wanting to go thing was very much of a lot of what he had been through up until that point, though. Which was a pretty giant roller coaster ride, tbh, but Ten's pretty unique among all three so far in of how emotional he was, and by extent, how human he had become upon Nine's regeneration and how attached he was to his 'life'. No spoilers, but conditions of Nine's regeneration sort of lent themselves to creating an incarnation who did interact with the companions (and others around them) a lot more and in a way, it was the probably the closest canonical point we got where he actually wanted desperately to be human, and got incredibly close to that point over the course of his run. Like, Ten even had romantic relationships of large enough impact and he's very distinctly human in how he recognizes social cues and habits and I think it gives him a sort of anchor to hold onto in the aftermath of the Time War. It's kind of reflected even in the companions- he's in love with Rose, negligent to Martha, and fantastic with Donna, but the point is that he loses all of his relationships in the end. Even when the Master blips up for a little and there's another Time Lord for a tiny bit, the Master also leaves in the end, leaving Ten alone again- in a sense, the only remainder to connect him to everyone around him, since with the regeneration, it would be just like dying since those connections would in a sense, be very much dead and gone and with them, the tethers to everyone he had lost over the years, even though he ultimately realizes that he's slowly losing himself due to being so human. Which is a bit of why Eleven had turned out the way he did- looking back at Ten with that level of humanity and seeing what it did to him and how everyone did leave him, just steps so far away from it as to prevent it from happening again.
SORRY THAT KIND OF GOT REALLY LONG AGAIN.