There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.