Heliport,
Understood and I see your point.
I would say that (no doubt like many!) my Dad is seeing progressively more of his old mates drop off the twig (he's in his mid-70s but still fit as a fiddle himself) and has, I think, squared away a few demons such that he knows the inevitable is approaching - so if he were to meet his maker in a smoking hole still strapped into something like a Spit, I think he'd prefer that to fading away anonymously in a nursing home.
I do agree with you totally, though, for anyone else who might be involved both in the aircraft and on the ground.