Topic on Talk:Heroic Sacrifice/Real Life

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I can't access RT's website due to where I live, so I got my information on this incident from the Real Life Heroes Wiki and two other websites which say the same thing.

All sources say ZT was trying to stop the criminal, who was armed with a knife, with a knife of his own. He succeeded and his sister escaped (so it wasn't a Senseless Sacrifice) - but the robber getting back up and stabbing him back probably caught him off guard (ZT might have thought one stab would kill the intruder).

It was a bold risk, but it doesn't sound like an intentional sacrifice of his life to me - ZT didn't have to die while stopping the criminal and it doesn't seem he thought he would die doing this (he was pretty much ambushing the robber) until it was too late to run away. Risking your life to save someone (when there's a chance you won't die in doing so) isn't the same as knowingly giving it up to save someone. I don't think this technically counts as a Heroic Sacrifice for that reason. Correct me if I'm wrong though - tropes are flexible.

(I know I'm repeating myself a lot. I'm not exactly a wordsmith.)