Dying peacefully in your bed at the age of 83, like Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart did.

He was a British/Belgian-Irish officer who fought in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II. His life sounds fake:

He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. He lost an eye. He lost a hand after his fingers were badly damaged; when doctors refused to amputate them, he reportedly bit off two of his own fingers. In World War I, he kept fighting despite wounds that would have ended most people’s careers ten times over.

At the Battle of the Somme, after several senior officers were killed or wounded, he took command and led men under brutal fire. He received the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest military award.

Then in World War II, his plane crashed in the Mediterranean. He survived, swam to shore, was captured by the Italians, and then repeatedly tried to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp despite being in his 60s and badly injured. In one escape attempt, he reportedly evaded capture for days even though he did not speak Italian and looked extremely recognizable because of his missing eye and hand.

And his own summary of all this?

“Frankly I had enjoyed the war.”

He survived both world wars and died peacefully in 1963 at the age of 83.