"Better to have lived as a Coward or to have died a Hero?".

 

I like that question. It's complicated and then again, it's not so much as complicated. It just depends on what you personally define each meaning to be and just how much stock you personally have invested in the world around you. Could I call a man a coward if he chose not to sacrifice himself because he had a family and children to take care of instead? And his single most important purpose in life is to assure he lives as long as possible to see that very same family he created live as long and as prosperous?

 

And as far as the person dying as a Hero. Again, back to the definition. Sometimes men or women can take one for the team or sacrifice themselves for the greater of good for more lives to live. However, what's more involved there? Were they grief stricken? Were they full of guilt? Had they let others before this particular situation arise die before because they refused to make that choice? Would their life truly matter in the long term and grand scheme of things? Do they have no one to love or love them in return? No family to care for or to live long enough to see grow and prosper?

 

It's all up to the individual and the definition of what you feel is tagged to being a Coward and being a Hero.

 

For me, personally, it would be strictly circumstantial and situational at best. Would I stick my neck out in a dire situation to save a few people? I don't know. I've never been placed in that type of situation. And it's easier said than done. And visce versa, would I buckle and fold under pressure? Tuck tail and run? I don't know.

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