The prospect of a glorious death in an honorable struggle?

I'm sure you'll get your glorious death soon enough.

But to a Viking, dying while fighting an enemy was a spiritual and glorious death.

Their last thoughts were of their lost loved ones and the glorious death that was waiting.

The Troll-slayer wanted no assistance in his quest for glorious death.

"Or would you seek a quick, glorious death, rather than wait to see what is the best pol- icy?"

Now it's offering to do the job itself, providing him with a glorious death while the world watches.

But only, so the stories said, to glorious death, sword in hand.

The samurai was born to the a glorious death in battle.

It would not exactly have been the glorious death he craved.