I need a spirit-guide.
"I got this far."
"Spirit-guides" imply American Indians. They had no problem dying for what they believed.
Unless you believe in the PC version of native Americans who were docile, nature loving hippies.
It is a good day to die.
I took it a bit differently. I took it as the boorish, sophomoric author seizing any opportunity to drop in a reference to paganism because it's just so utterly cool these days, and such a kewl way to dis the repressive white male christian president and the repressive white male military industrial complex he represents that "feeds off the blood of our children."
but, hey, maybe I'm being boorish and sophomoric.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with not being afraid to die at all.