Today is good day to die

[Swordfish42]

I'm almost certain people have heard this cliché before. In a great battle, where the odds seem impossibly against them, a warrior may say, "Today is a good day to die"

But why that day? What makes a good day for them to die on?

Also, what would in your opinion be a good day to die?

[Surenas]

It's a theatrical contempt for death in a military impasse or catch-22 situation, if ever then made by disillusioned veterans and, of course, by illusionary "holy warriors", to be understood in the sense of "this days is as good as any other and probably no other will follow. The opposite, usually made by rookies in panic, is: "Today is a good day to run away in the terror of battle", background of high losses in the case of a common rout.

 

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[Fifoo]

It's a theatrical contempt for death in a military impasse or catch-22 situation, if ever then made by disillusioned veterans and, of course, by illusionary "holy warriors", to be understood in the sense of "this days is as good as any other and probably no other will follow. The opposite, usually made by rookies in panic, is: "Today is a good day to run away in the terror of battle", background of high losses in the case of a common rout.

 

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I think we can go further in defining the words "Today is a good day to die". For this, we can learn from epics in which we find the myth of the hero.

 

A hero (or, for women, a heroine) is a real or fictional history of human mythology or art, whose high-facts worth sung his gesture. Depending on the culture, the hero is a demigod, a legendary figure, an ideal, a superman or simply a courageous person, giving freely of themselves.

 

The role of the hero is between metaphysical aspiration, almost religious, to exceed the human condition, including a physical point of view and from the more realistic aspiration to work for the good of the community, for a morally point.

 

The epic hero.

 

The epic hero in the epics is one knight gifted with superhuman strength, able to endure all kinds of physical or mental suffering. Copy of his fidelity to his lord, he was elected for his perfection and still represents a community whose existence is at stake, community struggling and suffering, to defeat the purpose. God's strength is almost always added to his assistance.

 

Death is the most moving moment of the story and contains a lesson driven by the vision of religious and feudal society: the suffering and death are noble when they are incurred for God and the sovereign. Thus the public, both chivalrous and popular, is called the major mass emotions and religious.