What are the perks of "Death Eating"?

[L Sanford]

No: HPFGUIDX 125792


Something that has been nettling the back of my mind throughout my absolute
enjoyment of this series is this:  What exactly ARE the advantages/perks of
being a death eater?  On the surface, it is the promise of power sometime in
the undefined future.  But what are they really getting themselves into?  
	Here is an *entity* who is obsessed with defeating his OWN
mortality, (correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall in canon that he
will or won't share the benefits of his discoveries with his followers) does
the initial burn on the arm, burns them thereafter when he wants to summon
them, crucios them if something does not go as planned, demands absolute
obedience, absolute loyalty and absolute faith in him as their *entity* and
for what?  I don't really see that the DE's as a group or as individuals
have been particularly all that well rewarded.
	In return,  they are feared, (possibly a form of power over others)
loathed, and marked by others in the WW as something to be shunned and and
defeated - even if it means the death of those who are opposing them.  And .
. If fighting death eaters results in the death of the fighter, they become
martyrs - rejuvinating and galvanizing the efforts of everyone else opposing
them (the Longbottoms for example).
	Honestly, the only death eater I've seen to directly benefit from
his association with LV is Peter Pettigrew (the silver hand, presumably
superior to the one he *used* to have).  Ironically, he is the most cowardly
and unstable of them all.  What gives?"

Molley (who's been up all night taking care of sick puppy dogs and thus is
rambling this morning.)