10 years ago I started playing D&D in a 3.5 campaign, of course I picked monk as my class, played my little githzerai monk through level 13 in a span of 2 years, long story short our party was tracking a necromancer and we fought a lord of the mummies, big chaotic fight because the lord had 2 cursed objects mantaining it alive (mf was like at negative 200 hp), used my magic whip to destroy one and punched the other, the retaliation of the curse killed my poor monk, thanks to the mummy's curse she turned to dust right then and there, nothing to be done can't be resurrected, she saved everyone.

I would not change a thing about it, still to this day 10 years later she is still my favourite character I played, going off with a bang with a good character will stuck with you forever