People, in most countries our young men, are thrust into the position of perhaps dying for nation or for beliefs institutionalized by a nation or culture that culturally a nation espouses. In those instances I'm not sure that it is a question of having beliefs for which one is willing to die, but finding one in situations in which one faces the real risk of dying, and then striving to make meaning of the situation in which one finds oneself.

When I look it hard in the face, I have positions for which I am willing for others to die. I am not willing to advocate for the abolition of the military. Nor am I willing to join the military and would fight my son tooth and nail if he decided to join the military. Were he conscripted and at risk, I imagine I would put myself through all sorts of twists and turns, were he to die, to make some meaning of it and to tolerate the grief. I don't think that in general, people who join the military, or get conscripted, go in thinking they are willing to die. Being willing to die for a cause is different from understanding one might die.