What is the most aesthetic death in history?

The in-progress death of the DNC

>>2549184
Not Cato the Younger or Julius Caesar.

>>2549184
Definitely not Socrates. Dude probably did a lot of shitting and vomiting before he kicked the bucket.

>>2549184
Jesus by far , his death is in every home in the west

File: b8d5cea3d7d01efd38fbf69e826ff8343b7d2129.jpg (271KB, 1138x800px) Image search: [Google]

271KB, 1138x800px

Someone important who died in battle.

Constantine XI if the rumours about him taking off his regalia and joining the ranks of defenders is true.

N A P O L E O N

>"France, Army, Head of Army, Josephine."

>>2549213

This. Crucifixion is just extremely an striking imagine while not looking too gruesome.

File: 1489361550108.jpg (138KB, 700x700px) Image search: [Google]

138KB, 700x700px

>>2549190

File: Jacques-Louis_David_-_La_Mort_de_Marat.jpg (202KB, 673x803px) Image search: [Google]

202KB, 673x803px

Find a more aesthetic death than this. You can't.

>>2549190

death kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeoC7P7Wmo

>>2549466

>when you're so irrelevant they put you on C-SPAN3

Zyzz

>>2549493

rest in beices

>>2549493
this

I just had a thought, a legend from early rome, I forget the name, but a great rent in the earth supposedly formed and threatened to destroy the city, a noble young man at the peak of his life donned a full suit of armor and plunged straight into the crevice with it closing up after him.

Death by snu snu.

File: 160111_CBOX_David-Bowie-08.jpg.CROP.promo-xlarge2.jpg (53KB, 1180x842px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 1180x842px

>>2549184
Bowie.

Mohammad Atta

Elvis obviously, what's more aesthetic than dying on the shitter?

File: david-bowie-lazarus.jpg (98KB, 1500x1000px) Image search: [Google]

98KB, 1500x1000px

>>2549575

Damn right

>>2549585

what a whimpering end to an absolute legend

File: Blackstar_(Front_Cover).png (14KB, 316x316px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 316x316px

>>2549575
>>2549590
This. Bowie was a wizard, someone who made a point to experience and explore his identity and reality as fully as possible. His music showcased his journey and provided a dark reflection of our own experience in Western culture.

[spoiler]People don't consider it too deeply, but Ziggy had lore. He was a black hole in a physical body, from a race of sentient stars. That's why Bowie's final album was named Black Star.

File: DeathofCeasar-58cfe3c33df78c3c4f0e566c.jpg (74KB, 768x512px) Image search: [Google]

74KB, 768x512px

>>2549184
easy question: Caesar's death cannot be surpassed for the importance of his historical figure, that of his assassins, and of his allies, the time and place where it took place, the inmediate consequences it implied, the literature and arts it inspired throughout the centuries, the drama implied by having an adopted son, trusted allies and at fellow senators actively participating to the slaughter, the melodramatic death caused by several stabswhich appeared to everyone like a human sacrifice, falling under the statue of his esteemed friend, ally, enemy, and, ultimately, victim, Pompey the Great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPwlVkNvL7g

File: tmp_6510-Tarakanova-885287815.jpg (452KB, 1400x1845px) Image search: [Google]

452KB, 1400x1845px

I kinda doubt the scene in this painting actually took place, but I'll be gotdammed if it ain't aesthetic

>>2549250
from what I've read, most of the men in this painting could not have been present at wolfe's death, and the indian is a mere prop

>>2550828
>Caesar
This is what it felt like when you fucked my wife.

File: image.jpg (1MB, 3000x2000px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3000x2000px

>>2550873

>>2549575
>>2549590
>>2550790
THIS lads.
>tfw Lazarus mentions the upcoming day of his death specifically but you could only realize it after it happened.

File: tmp_6510-772px-Peter_the_Great_Interrogating_the_Tsarevich_Alexei_Petrovich1177063857.jpg (109KB, 772x599px) Image search: [Google]

109KB, 772x599px

>>2550912
Why are the best tsars always so intent on fucking up their succession?

>>2549184
>check 'em

File: this plays so bad i wish someone would just shoot m.jpg (56KB, 600x446px) Image search: [Google]

56KB, 600x446px

>>2549184

Lucius Sergius Catilina, for all that he is a villain. Even his enemies praised how his body was found far in front of the rest of his men.

>>2549554
Curtius, for whom the Lacus Curtius was named. I forget his praenomen though.

>>2549250
>throwing off your regalia so as to escape the city as a peasant
>thousands of years later Byzaboos alter the story to make you look good
Decidedly not glorious

>>2550965
And I'll add the two Decii Muses who sacrificed themselves in devotio to ensure their armies' victories. Imagine the bravery and selflessness to 100% know you will die, but give it for your soldiers and homeland.

File: turkeyrussianambassador.jpg (121KB, 1050x1434px) Image search: [Google]

121KB, 1050x1434px

Not history yet, but too aesthetic to not be posted in this thread

File: 1485762493063.png (342KB, 753x362px) Image search: [Google]

342KB, 753x362px

>>2549449
My favorite, though Mishima's failed coup and suicide comes close.

File: Simmler_Death_of_Barbara_Radziwiłł.jpg (112KB, 800x688px) Image search: [Google]

112KB, 800x688px

La Mort de Barbara Radziwiłł

>>2551007
Objectively correct answer, even if it breaks the 25 year rule

>>2551007
good one m8

>>2551007
Came here to post this

>>2550972
I haven't yet quite understood Devotio.

Is it making a pact with the earth spirits to charge into the enemy and not back down?

>>2551161
>>2551018

Isn't Mishima just a japanese Robert E. Howard?

>>2551208
His writings were far more literary than Howard's and he didn't have the same mother issues.
Their worldviews, though initially quite similar, also significantly differ in my opinion. While Howard glorified the freedom and self-dependence of the old west through the character Conan as a rebellion against the boom and bust capitalism running rampant across his Texas, Mishima glorified the past and wanted to return power to the institution of the Emperor because he saw past the political and moral issues surrounding Japan's Empire and Occupation and dedicated himself to aesthetics of the act itself. Frankly, he's the closest Japan's ever had to Nietzsche's superman.

>>2551205
Yes, with chthonic deities and spirits, the oath being witnessed by other gods, mainly Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus.

Hattori Hanzo getting burned alive while swimming. Must have been a hardcore way to die assuming it actually did happen.

File: Cato the Younger.jpg (26KB, 266x400px) Image search: [Google]

26KB, 266x400px

the Utican, obviously.
Based defender of stoicism and democracy

File: are you from tennessee.jpg (9KB, 456x257px) Image search: [Google]

9KB, 456x257px

>>2549575

No kidding, nigga. Dude took a barrage of fists, got the shit beaten out of him, and then got his head run over by an ambulance.

>>2550965
>implying he didn't die with his countrymen
Revisonism get out.

>>2551355
Prove it Byzaboo.

>>2551033
DELET THIS

>>2551355
>countrymen
You mean a handful of citymen and a bunch of brave Italian mercenaries? I think that he did die because he doesn't show up later, but as I said the Turks killed him as he was trying to escape.

File: TheApotheosisLincolnAndWashington1860s.jpg (434KB, 609x868px) Image search: [Google]

434KB, 609x868px

>>2549184
>>2550958

>>2549190
fbpb

File: Renieri_Niccolo_Regnier_Nicolas_-_St_Sebastian.jpg (3MB, 3000x4068px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 3000x4068px

>>2551018
Mishimas felt way too forced for me. He wrote about some pretty aesthetic deaths though like Patriotism, Death in Midsummer and The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea.

St Sebastian was his idealised death (even though St Sebastian didn't die there)

File: a716358096.jpg (46KB, 540x347px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 540x347px

The death of Patroclus

>>2552538
ghey.

If by aesthetic, you mean strictly the visuals, my vote goes to cleopatra. Modern views of beauty aside, she was considered to be a striking beauty of her time, and she basically weasels her way into more power than any woman before her with her pussy. If the legends are to be believed, she died in desperation with her lover as their enemies surrounded them, choosing to end her own life with an asp.
But if you mean poetically pleasing, I'd say Genghis Khan. He was born to basically nothing (one of many sons of a petty chieftain), rose to power through brutality, merit, and intimidation, rallied all of the clans of the steppe people, and unleashed a torrent of carnage and destruction across Asia and the parts of Arabia/Eastern Europe like it was child's play, brought the Chinese Empire to its knees when they didn't even think him to be a threat, murdered, raped, and pillaged all who ever crossed him, then died of disease/non-combat injury, surrounded by his sons and generals. They would go on to continue this wave of destruction for generations before retiring into history books. In terms of people knowing the end was near, looking back on their lives and what they had accomplished, and the things that would happen after their death, his just seems staggering.

>>2549207
Yeah, but not before going on a long speech about why he had a duty to shit, vomit, then die.

>>2552611
>cleopatra was a beauty
Can this meme die already? Just look at that nose. And she wasn't surrounded by enemies, she'd already been captured. She would've sucked Octavian and all his officer's cocks for a chance to rule as a client queen, but he was too smart to fall for it.

>>2551347
Is this a
Dare I say it
a
*breathes in*
[spoiler]One Piece Reference?[/spoiler]

Charles Guiteau should be in the running too.

>>2551324
Do you have the story? I cant even find it

>posting pictures named image.jpg with 0 context

Is there a name for this mental disease

>>2555707
Phoneshittery

>>2556003
Poor Mario

http://time.com/3456028/the-most-beautiful-suicide-a-violent-death-an-immortal-photo/

>>2552772
You can't be as effective of a gold digger as her and be ugly, anon.

File: IMG_3065.jpg (46KB, 427x559px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 427x559px

Are you nerds even trying?

Also - flaming Buddhist monk

>>2557710
its not even a great picture

File: tsar_execution.jpg (77KB, 452x506px) Image search: [Google]

77KB, 452x506px

Whereas Nicholas had been adamant, even in the darkest days of the war, that he would be loyal to the alliance of nations and never make a separate peace, his supposed “allies” quickly deserted him. In France and Great Britain the downfall of the Romanov monarchy was cheered and in the United States the Congress joined in the congratulations as the change made them feel at least a little less hypocritical about entering a war to “make the world safe for democracy”.

File: IMG_0525.jpg (278KB, 1152x841px) Image search: [Google]

278KB, 1152x841px

Mark Antony. Almost Shakespearean.

>>2549190
Far from aesthetic, they are fighting tooth and nail to stay alive and it's killing them.

It still is great to watch the implosion.

>>2550965
t. Mehmet

File: kill_me_baby_007_yasuna.jpg (34KB, 252x342px) Image search: [Google]

34KB, 252x342px

>>2550965
>I forget his praenomen though.
When in doubt, roll a 3-sided dice with the names "Lucius", "Gaius" and "Marcus" on its faces.

>>2560575

he said history, not mythology

>>2557727
You're blind.

Caesar's death.
Because of all the things other anon described, because of sheer horror of others towards what Caesar had become and because of infinite arguments against and pro assassinating him.

During his life, Caesar was more than a mere man to his legions and to the Senate he was a beast, a king of old. And worse. I don't think that people realize what his power meant at the time and how utterly terrified Romans were to face the prospects of losing the Republic. It meant the end of the world to them. They thought it was the pinnacle of society, of god's order on earth, of their Greek ancestry etc. It would be a modern equivalent of Trump declaring dictatorship and America descending into war and becoming barbarous like Mexico or Brazil.

>>2549449
his body was covered with pus and bubons

File: 46cd2acd3e9efe38d18bb1054c6251ca.jpg (14KB, 236x307px) Image search: [Google]

14KB, 236x307px

>>2549184
>tfw you will never kill yourself for ideology

>>2551332
>Democracy
U wot m8

>>2562558
Do you know anything about composition? The answer is no

File: 1482188434987.jpg (124KB, 1280x854px) Image search: [Google]

124KB, 1280x854px

>>2551007
another angle for you

>>2549190
lel

>>2557710

This

File: evita.jpg (47KB, 350x489px) Image search: [Google]

47KB, 350x489px

The speech she gave just before her death breaks my heart every time

>>2563277
This
>A E S T H E T I C

File: american.jpg (33KB, 464x309px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 464x309px

>>2551684
Lincoln was a faggot tyrant, who ruined the American Republic, and got what was coming to him

Sic Semper Tyrannis

File: Cranarch - Death of Lucretia.jpg (1MB, 1280x1874px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1280x1874px

Lucretia's suicide was pretty /fa/.

File: Marechal_Ney_à_Waterloo.jpg (3MB, 3088x2056px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 3088x2056px

>When Napoleon was defeated, dethroned, and exiled for the second time in the summer of 1815, Ney was arrested on 3 August 1815. After a court-martial decided in November that it did not have jurisdiction, he was tried on 4 December 1815 for treason by the Chamber of Peers. In order to save Ney's life, his lawyer Dupin declared that Ney was now Prussian and could not be judged by a French court for treason as Ney's hometown of Sarrelouis had been annexed by Prussia according to the Treaty of Paris of 1815. Ney ruined his lawyer's effort by interrupting him and stating: "I am French and I will remain French." On 6 December 1815, he was condemned, and on 7 December 1815 he was executed by firing squad in Paris near the Luxembourg Garden. He refused to wear a blindfold and was allowed the right to give the order to fire, reportedly saying:

>"Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her ... Soldiers, fire!"

And of note; his actions at Waterloo:

>Ney was seen during one of the charges beating his sword against the side of a British cannon in furious frustration. During the battle, he had five horses killed under him; and at the end of the day, Ney led one of the last infantry charges, shouting to his men: "Come and see how a marshal of France meets his death!" It was as though Ney was seeking death, but death did not want him, as many observers reported.

True élan.

File: 2345234523.jpg (93KB, 1197x1400px) Image search: [Google]

93KB, 1197x1400px

>>2563430
>posting a version of her death in anachronistic Renaissance clothing

>>2551012
This right here.

>>2557529
IIRC she was very good at talking her way into important men's pants. A sort of female pickup artist, if you will. So she only has to be attractive enough for those skills to be able to make up for the rest.

>>2563283
Jackie looks THICC af there

>>2562917
He killed himself for the aesthetic. Mushima realised that Japanese culture and Emperor worship were valueless but believed in them anyway.

>>2551012
A hero.

It's myth but would've been sort of history to the contemporaries and is kek worthy.
The death of Ajax the lesser and its variants
1.When Ajax finally left Troy during the Returns from Troy, Athena hit his ship with a thunderbolt, but Ajax still survived with some of his men, managing to cling onto a rock. He boasted that even the gods could not kill him and Poseidon, upon hearing this, split the rock with his trident, causing Ajax to eventually drown.
2.when Ajax came to the Capharean Rocks on the coast of Euboea, his ship was wrecked in a fierce storm, he himself was lifted up in a whirlwind and impaled with a flash of rapid fire from Athena in his chest, and his body thrust upon sharp rocks, which afterwards were called the rocks of Ajax.
All because he boinked the wrong biddy in the wrong place.

>>2550925
They wouldnt live to their stupidly high intentions and expectations

>>2551007
Opened this thread just to post this

>>2556003
Mama Mia!

File: images.jpg (6KB, 201x251px) Image search: [Google]

6KB, 201x251px

>115 posts in
>No mention of my nigga Crhysippus

File: Николай-Алексей-Татьяна.jpg (27KB, 400x299px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 400x299px

>>2557766
He didn't deserve it bros

>>2550873
Owo who's this

File: 1489372448634.jpg (39KB, 374x347px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 374x347px

>>2551332
>democracy
Is this what they teach in school these days?