Most dignified death on TV?

the person who dies at the end of this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=5dpYk9srLJk&feature=endscreen from Whitest Kids U Know seems to have the most dignified deathj ever shown on TV, in my opnion. would you guys know of more dignified deaths? would you say thta Timmy's death was not dgnified? opinions?

I was going to go with Gus's death from Breaking Bad S4, but it's pretty much the same thing as what happens in that video.

Caesar Augustus from I Claudius. It's an epicly long single take shot of just the actors face as he dies, while his wife talks in the background. It's absolutely amazing.

It's also from the 80's and the UK, so I don't think it'd ever get mentioned in this thread.

If nobody minds me going off topic for a minute, I have a question for Nicknacks.

I currently have a YKTTW up called distracted from death, it's about a situation where two characters are together, one is briefly distracted by a situation like going into another room, going to get help, fighting off an enemy, etc. Anyway, while that one character is distracted the other character dies unnoticed.

The death of Augustus from I Claudis sounds like this. Would you agree, or is there more to it than that?

On topic, Cicero from the HBO series Rome had a good one: he spends the last minutes of his life writing a letter to warn Brutus about the trap that Marc Antony and Octavian would spring on him, chooses not to flee from the armed men at his door, is cordial to his assassin, comforts his old slave and stops the slave from futilely trying to fight said assassin, etc.

Babylon 5 had a couple of good ones: first up is Marcus Cole, who gave his life to save his unrequited love by sticking them into a machine that drained away his life and gave it to her, (and when she wakes up she remembers his voice speaking softly to her and having thought it was God's voice at first).

There was also a priest who seemed to be a kind of nice Mauve Shirt background character, who was revealed to be a former Serial Killer whose memory had been erased as part of his sentence and his life spent in service to others because the death penalty is extremely rare in B5, mostly only done for treason. Some friends and relatives of his victims start hunt him down, and make him learn about his past. He chooses to go to them and basically let them do as they will, knowing full well how it's going to end.

None of those might deserve the label of most dignified, but I think they're worthy nominees.

Sorry The Wanderer, but she poisoned him. Lydia's not a magnificent bastard for nothing. :P

Edit: there's a few pretty good examples of what you're talking about in Six Feet Under. One character slips and falls off-screen while her husband sleeps in a jacuzzi, and there's another one where a football player dies from heatstroke while all his buddies are distracted by his friend who also fell over.

edited 9th Dec '11 3:54:08 AM by Nicknacks

Jonathan Kent wins for most magnificently angelic death ever. I hope he sent the writers a case of beer.

Thanks for the response Nicknacks, it's much appreciated. I have a pretty good number of examples, but I'll try to do a little research into the 6FeetUnder deaths and maybe add those in too.

Thanks again.

After Sunday's episode of Boardwalk Empire we may have another contender. Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS!

Jimmy Darmody had a pretty decent one. He basically spends the entire last episode of the season doing the right thing and getting his affairs in order, calmly walks unarmed into the ambush he knows is waiting for him, then talks his mentor/father figure Nucky through the process of killing him. (Probably because he believes, [almost certainly falsely] that it's Nucky's first time killing anyone.) The last scene of him is a flashback to his days in the trenches in WWI, and being ordered to go over the top. In the flashback he takes a deep breath for a second, then charges. Very metaphorical.

This is an obscure one. Bobby Cannivale has an episode-long death on Third Watch. He spends it hovering in a dream boxing ring where he confronts his father, who ran out on him. He doesn't seem aware that he's dying or what's going on, so it could be a hallucination or it could be heaven. At the end they reconciles, and he fades into light.

I agree wholeheartedly with Dragonzordasaurus. A classy villain that died with style. Memorable.