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"I'm Kay, I'm just gosling out."
The desire for a glorious death in honorable combat.
I will settle for dying while charging a heavily entrenched position. or alternativlely im ok to be blasted apart by heavy artillery.
I read about this one Vietnamese soldier, Phan Dinh Giot, who died on the first day of fighting the French colonialists at Dien Bien Phu (Strongpoint Beatrice iirc). Before he joined the PAVN, his father had starved to death under French-Japanese occupation.
Phan Dinh Giot charged an entrenched machine gun dugout while throwing grenades at and into the MG loophole, got shot multiple times, then plugged said loophole with his own mangled body thus trapping the Fr*nch MG crew inside with his grenade and disabling the machine gun. He was mortally wounded by point blank fire and his own grenades but reportedly his last words to his comrades charging up behind him after he cleared the nest were: "3 for 1, not bad!"
His comrades went on to win the battle so decisively that one of the Frog commanders chose to permanently decolonize himself with a grenade in humiliation and Paris surrendered their colonial rule over Northern Vietnam- not bad indeed comrade. 
Ideally I'd like to win but be mortally wounded, then take a seat and fade out on the W, leaving a cool corpse and a legendary weapon for the person who's been following my trail of audio logs.
Oh. Yeah I for sure would like to leave some purple loot behind.
Excellent choices.
Do you think it would hurt? After you get the dramatic fall over do you sort of sit there for a while before dying? "I already got the hype moment, can we wrap this up, please?"
You know you joke but I do recall a genuinely movie moment in a video recording of a Ukrainian and Russian soldier who fought hand to hand with knives and the Russian managed to make lethal attacks on the Ukrainian, and the Ukrainian just said something to the effect of "You win, you win, let me just die in peace" and the Russian just got up and left him. The Russians who saw the video praised the Ukrainian for doing so well, the Ukrainians on the other hand? Got angry at the Ukrainian soldier for losing. I saw the video a few years ago but probably wouldn't be difficult to find; the Russian soldier of a non-white ethnicity saw people were interested in the knife he used so he made a video explaining what it was.
If you look up the video, obviously content warning: it's pretty violent.
I remember that, that was such a raw video. They had both stabbed each other multiple times but eventually the Ukrainian was getting the worse of it, and at the end he was like "ahhhh, fuck, you got me, you’ve poked me full of holes, opened all my arteries, let me die. You got me. You were better, brother"
It's a horrifying video but very primal to see a recording of two warriors fighting for their lives like that
Yeah that video is brutal and it’s from the POV of the guy who lost. I saw a picture of the guy who won reacting to the video of him killing the Ukrainian. His face is the thing that sticks in my memory. His “holy shit is this what I’m seeing” reaction to the screen in his hand.
I should have saved that picture. It was 21st century surreality distilled. Maybe I should start saving these pictures somewhere.
Did I miss something?
Not a good spot to bleed out, that's for sure
what movie is this from?
Deuce Bigalow IV: Dragon Ball Piccolo
ah a classic
The Proposition (2005)
ty!
shrinking the images so its not absolutely massive
They say you get a moment where the pain caused by your body fighting to stay alive goes away. It’s not that it becomes painless, but the body really struggles as it fights and it manifests as shaking, fevers, sweating, coughing, your body is trying to wring you out like a dishrag. Those things go away.
The yearning for these spaces to mirror that inner experience is a yearning for some kind of symmetry or sense or logic to the universe in a moment that your relationship to reality is tested: the exact moment you are asked to let go of it.
"They say" a lot of things about dying, but I've never heard someone who went through it say much. Except for our lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Do you have a moment to talk about the Lord? It could be worth a lifetime in heaven.
Yakuza 5 Kiryu moment