A Hero's Death - Basis in mythology??

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99829

Kneasy:
> 2. Heroism is about more than brave deeds; it's also about self 
sacrifice. Usually the ultimate self-sacrifice (Marathon, Roland). 
That's what you  get when you put concern for the condition of 
others above your own  safety. To my mind getting a race named 
after you doesn't quite make  up for not being able to stroll down 
the course.<

It's much safer to name things after dead heroes.   Chicago still 
suffers the civic embarrassment of  a street named after 
Mussolini's Air Marshall. 

But everybody dies, heroes included. The romancers of old 
thought it was rather unheroic to die in bed, so  they usually 
allowed their aging heroes one last battle. 

Mark Twain said it was difficult to know where to end the story of 
a boy, but the story of a man ends with a marriage.  I 
suspect the epilogue will leave this generation's survivors 
married off.

Pippin