Yep. I can't see the value of dying in a front porch shootout with a SWAT team.
The value is embodied in the concept of "dying for your country": you may very well not survive the encounter, but those opponents who do survive will reconsider ever getting into the same situation again. Waco is a perfect example: the ATF/FBI/etc. technically won the encounter, and the Davidians lost bigtime, but the former never tried that $#!^ again.
Two words: Phyrric victory.