You're now fighting men and women who pray five times a day to die a noble death.
Thus, in their view, it's better to choose a noble death than to survive and compromise yourself.
He expects his noble death to be written up in a song, if indeed his people survive at all.
And if it comes to that, a noble death is to be preferred to an ignoble one.
In my experience most heroes end up dying noble but tragic deaths at an early age.
He asked to be executed by dying a noble death without the spilling of blood.
At first considered a coward, he acquits himself with a noble death.
There is no such thing as a noble death in the nuclear age.
Then I won't give you the satisfaction of a noble death.
He would give his crew a chance to die a good and noble death.