Well, I like how you can only combine thinking of life as valuable and death as a bad thing in this poll. How about life is valuable, but death still is overrated? Life is valuable because you can feel joy and pain, and cause them in others. You can marvel at the world, stand in awe of it's beauty. You can't do these things in death (with the possible exception of spiritual life, reincarnation, etc. but I'll go with the general opinion here), but that doesn't mean that death is something to shun or be afraid of. I mean, if there's nothing after death, you don't have to worry about a thing! Just rest awaits you, that's not horrifying or terrible.

I'd say life is valuable, but death isn't a bad thing. I'll certainly say it's silly to be afraid of it when it's going to happen anyway. The worst part of torture isn't the pain, it's the fear. And in this case, there's not even pain to be afraid about. So why subject yourself to that other experience?