26For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.
27Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:
28And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.
2 Maccabees 6. The story of stalwart Eleazar. His friends urged him to pretend to eat pork to get along. He refused to even pretend to comply.