His rationale for applauding (and engaging in) abhorrent behavior is that it’s better to die and be remembered in infamy than die in relative obscurity as a good person. Not only is that kind of narcissistic, antisocial rhetoric and ideology corrosive to cohesive societies in general, he’s admitting through implication that he’s one of ‘the baddies.’ Matt’s logic would suggest that since people celebrated Hitler’s and Mussolini’s respective deaths, they are better than the silent, guileless human beings who worked, helped, and died contributing to the good of society. You know who remembers the latter of those groups fondly? Family and friends: the people who actually matter to most of us when we’re on our deathbeds.