martyrdom, n.All

Some ants explode themselves when their colonies are attacked, covering the assailant with deadly yellow goo.

A male honeybee’s orgasm is so powerful that its sex organs explode, shortly after which it dies.

Martyrdom is weak — To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

I called a suicide hotline in AfghanistanThey got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck

Sunburn is basically your skin cells commiting suicide so that they don't becomes cancerous

Martyrdom is proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.

Martyrdom is based on rather shaky reckoning, for to die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

Martyrdom is oftne a ruse. Anyone who says light-heartedly that he would be ready to die for something can't be very sensitive or very honest with himself.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is being ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to you.

When mating, the male octopus tears off his arm (the one that's also a penis), places it in the female and then swims off to die.

Martyrdom is a variety of stubborness. Allowing oneself to be burned for one's opinion is to display a certain impertinence.

Martyrdom is to at once die for an idea that will live and to refuse to live for an idea that will die.