I think that there’s a difference between preventing imminent death, and avoiding death. That is, there’s a difference between being in a situation where you “should” die, but you don’t, and not getting in such a situation to begin with.
And in the canon story (which may not be canon; it appears in the canon, but that doesn’t mean it’s canon), the third brother greeted Death “as an old friend”, so apparently he had the same attitude that Dumbledore had: dying after a full life is not a tragedy.
Of course he had that opinion, Rowling was writing themes so deathist that even the me of that time—who had yet to even hear of transhumanism—was thrown by it.
Voldemort is defined as evil partially just because of his fear of and avoidance of death—if you notice, she explicitly built it so that most of his atrocities occurred after and because of the steps he took to avoid death.
I think that there’s a difference between preventing imminent death, and avoiding death. That is, there’s a difference between being in a situation where you “should” die, but you don’t, and not getting in such a situation to begin with.
And in the canon story (which may not be canon; it appears in the canon, but that doesn’t mean it’s canon), the third brother greeted Death “as an old friend”, so apparently he had the same attitude that Dumbledore had: dying after a full life is not a tragedy.
Of course he had that opinion, Rowling was writing themes so deathist that even the me of that time—who had yet to even hear of transhumanism—was thrown by it.
Voldemort is defined as evil partially just because of his fear of and avoidance of death—if you notice, she explicitly built it so that most of his atrocities occurred after and because of the steps he took to avoid death.