The legend in canon says exactly that; the Peverell brother who got the Cloak was most successful, and lived a long time because the Cloak allowed him to evade death (until one day he took it off and got screwed).
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.
The legend in canon says exactly that; the Peverell brother who got the Cloak was most successful, and lived a long time because the Cloak allowed him to evade death (until one day he took it off and got screwed).
He took it off and gave it to his son. In canon he meets death intentionally.
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.