Everyone dies eventually. Everyone. What's important is how one lives their life. This brave man chose to live--and die--with dignity and valor by standing up to these brutal terrorists. Unlike the daily sobbing and hand-wringing from those who would appease and assist these terrorists.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -John Stuart Mill