An exercise in "Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse."
When all else fails, leave a good-looking corpse.
Given how little his sacrifice was evidently destined to mean, he hoped that he'd at least leave a good-looking corpse behind for posterity's sake.
LIVE fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse.
Len Bias, the Maryland basketball star, lived fast, died young and left a good-looking corpse.
Don Rogers, the Cleveland Browns' defensive back, lived fast, died young - just about 10 days after Bias - and left a good-looking corpse.
This group lived by the dictum "live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse".
Allison explained, "All through this picture he said, 'I want to die young and leave a good-looking corpse.'
Course if you're on some world where we don't know anything about the bugs, best you can do is try to leave a good-looking corpse.
We wanted to die well every single day, to be a cool guy and a good-looking corpse.