Previously, Gagarin had tried to save his friend Vladimir Komarov's life by pulling one of these.He could have ejected safely from his failing craft, but chose to fly on past that point, because if he had ejected, the plane would have landed on a village killing everyone there. Gagarin died on March 27, 1968, when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed near Moscow.A few of these people did not survive, but their warnings saved countless lives. The murders of Mikac and her daughters caused people to rush to the toll booth entrance and warn visitors in their cars to flee, as they knew Bryant would drive up the hill to shoot their children.Neville Quin was shot in the neck and survived trying to reach his wife. Brigid Cook began an impromptu evacuation of the site and whilst shot, survived. Carolyn Loughton threw herself on top of her daughter, but while she survived, her daughter did not. Nanette Patricia Mikac knelt down before Martin Bryant, the shooter, to die whilst asking him, simply, to spare her two daughters (unsuccessfully).The Port Arthur Massacre had more than one sadly failed attempt.Termite soldiers will go out of their mound in the event of a breach to hold off the enemy (usually ants) while the workers rebuild - sealing the soldiers out.He had been Properly Paranoid about dying ever since the aforementioned disaster, but he chose to shield his fiancée instead. This happened not long after the infamous, 'The day the music died', which he sang a Tear Jerker song, 'Three stars', about, as a tribute to the three musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, who died in the incident.

Singer Eddie Cochran shielded his then-fiancée Sharon Sheeley from the impact of a fatal car crash, dying in the process.

Mangaka Kazuki Takahashi, known as the creator of the successful franchise Yu-Gi-Oh!, died rescuing three people from a riptide.

He was shot through the door five times before finally succumbing to a shot to the head. During the Virginia Tech massacre, he held the door of his classroom shut, allowing most of his students to escape. The last words recorded on the plane's CVR - 'pull it up', said calmly and in English - also suggests that the passengers were successful in gaining control of the cockpit, but by then the crash was inevitable. It is believed that the group, led by passenger Todd Beamer, managed to kill or incapacitate at least one of the hijackers after breaching the cockpit using an airline trolley as a battering ram, and then proceeded to fight the remaining hijackers for control over the aircraft's yoke. Various cell phone calls to loved ones indicate that the passengers knew exactly what they were doing and there was little to no chance of surviving. It did, but countless lives were saved at wherever the intended target site was (according to captured al-Qaeda members, it was most likely the U.S.

After learning that three other planes had been used as weapons against thousands, the passengers assaulted their hijackers, knowing it would probably lead to their deaths. A group Heroic Sacrifice - United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.Zhenya Tabakov, a 7-year-old boy, died while protecting his 12-year-old sister from a rapist.

Miki endo being washed away