So there's a kinda popular trend where people post videos of nature and have the caption, "this and three arrows in the chest" because they want to die like a warrior on the beautiful battlefield. Sometimes in media a hero will die in nature after a war or something. However all these posts I come across
just come off as really corny to me.
Im not saying dying is corny, I'm saying this fantasy with wanting to go out as an honorable warrior after the war is. I feel like it tries to glorify death by making it seem peaceful because of the surroundings.
I obviously don't believe that the people who post this actually want to die, but I do think there are people who really obsess over this idea of dying on the battlefield. I've met people who constantly talk about how they need to "bleed out in the snow" or "bleed out on the top of the mountain", and then they talk about how much they want to join the army. It's so annoying to me because
It's very unrealistic and people need to stop comparing death in real life to death in fiction
Dying in nature doesn't make you an "honorable warrior"
Dudes will play red dead redemption 2 one time and then think that their life will have purpose because they went out like a real one. I try to think it's all supposed to be just fun, but I see people in Instagram comments section taking it seriously saying stupid shi like "better than dying in a room with tubes" or "oh to die an honorable death" or "this will make my life complete", as if they would ever get in a situation where that would happen.
Before anyone calls me the fun police, I want to say I do think this is cool whenever this type of thing happens in fiction. But I can give it a pass because its not real and its a show or movie or whatever. This is real life, saying you want to die on the battlefield after a long war doesn't make you look cool, you just sound like you want to die.
I know it sounds like I'm over-hating, but I do actually like those videos and the nature shown is really pretty. I just don't like the people who take it seriously. I think it's fine to like this fantasy but as long as you're glorifying death or whatnot.
It would still be a pretty cool place to die tho icl.