@jho1188 Serious question? To me it’s ridiculous. If you’re dead, you’re dead, and it really doesn’t matter how you got dead. The only people it could possibly count for is people who are alive and want to tell a nice story about a hero. I’m sorry, but there is no such thing as a “good” death.
Some people want to leave a legacy of some kind after they’re dead. Some people want to be remembered for a long time. However, that only can comfort you while you’re alive. I’m sure people are motivated to do a lot of things in order to have others think well of them. But they only mean anything to the person before the person dies.
Perhaps you can convey some benefit to your children or your family by dying in a way or for a cause that people admire. However, people have little control over this. Few martyrs actually try to be martyrs. Circumstances come together, and you do something honorable, or not. However, in so many cases, no one was there to witness the honor, and family members have a vested interest in turning their relatives deaths into heroic stories.
It only counts how you die to people who are living. And they can tell any story they want about death. As far as the dead person is concerned, none of it matters.
This question is very different from asking how you want to die. It’s a rather unfocused and ill-written question, and should have been moderated. I reserve the right to “be a dick” when people asking questions are being disrespectful of the rest of us. Part of the fun here is making fun. If you don’t want to be made fun of, write a serious question.
People make fun of me all the time (and if they don’t, they should). You don’t have to be a dick about me being a dick. You could have satirized me. Would have been much more effective.