"Seventeen" from HEATHERS: THE MUSICAL Original Cast Recording
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- Described by a Twitter fan as "'Somewhere' with sociopaths", "Seventeen" is an anthem for the troubled teen in all of us. Now available for your streaming pleasure.
AND THEN THE MUSICAL ENDED HERE AND NO ONE BLEW UP
MilkSushi I WISH😭😭
MilkSushi YES! THE END. CURTAIN CALL. GO HOME NOW.
This is like when someone blacked out the ending part of Fault in the Stars so they wouldn't get sad
FUCK I WISHH 😭
Yanille Colón I WISHHH
*intense sobbing* she just wanted to be seventeeeeen
Kiwi Øverlørd 😫😫😫
Your picture's from be more chill😭
😬😬😬
YEAH, WITH HIM. WE CAN BE SEVENTEEEEENNNN
So did I, and we all know how *that* turned out…
Lettuce be seventeen
Wow.
my dude i saw this laughed and instantly started crying like fr
PLS NO I CANT UNHEAR IT
this is proof that my sense of humour is shit
🥬
0:10
"We don’t choose who lives or dies"
WHO TELLS YOUR STORY
+Samantha Miller I read the first line and I just knew what the 'show more' was going to say
Now I'm crying...
+Samantha Miller *high fives you*
And now some crossover titles
1)I am not throwing away my shot: trust me, there fake bullets
2) the Heather sisters
3) the ten dual croquet rules
4) who lives who dies whose seventeen
Mac'n CheeseTV That is amazing oh my God
"Maybe prom night"
HE COULD HAVE BROUGHT HER TO PROM
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
omg YES
DONT TRY ME LIKE THIS MY HEART
But instead, he brought her to hell.
"man this prom really blows...... wait I just got an idea."
If he didn't try to blow up the damn school
I think the most heart-breaking part is the "(VERONICA) Hold me tighter (J.D.) Even closer" in this song because in I am Damaged there's that part where JD says "“Please stand back now. Little further," and it just parallels the betrayal of J.D. in the field and how he pushes the people who care about him further and further away.
[insert my very audible crying]
That's okay. I didn't need my heart.
Damn that's deep
*cue tears*
Who gave you the right to tear my heart out and stomp on it like this?
WE DONT GO ANY FURTHER THAN THIS EVERYONE
THIS IS THE END OF HEATHERS
JD AND VERONICA LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
THEY GRADUATE AND GET MARRIED AND LIVE A HAPPY LIFE
If only...
p l e a s e
Where was this message before I saw heathers
I wish...
Like... what the flip nuggets
Bitter-sweet. Am spending some of my last minutes of being 17 listening to this.
:(
Pink Y no longer a dancing queen either ;-;
Liz And Fandoms lol
Shoot I have a couple months left till I'm not the dancing queen either :(
Pink Y I see what you did there
"People hurt us"
"Or they vanish"
"And your right it really blows"
Aww that's to sad! Wait....
"And your right it really blows"
.....Blows
EVEN IN THIS SONG THEY ARE FORESHADOWING!! Either that or I am looking to deep into this ONE line...
Haylie Bunny "my date kinda blew- me off." exact words from Veronica Sawyer
MoonEclipse xoxo She'll be blowin JD, that's for sure XD
they foreshadowed in the first song "gotta hold back the urge to set a match to this place"
MoonEclipse xoxo there is foreshadowing throughout all of the songs
*confused screaming
veronica actually sounds like a teenager it's so amazing
Yeah!
Yeah, Barret is pretty awesome, isn't she?
Pretty sure she's pretty close to a teen when she was in this
@@daphnelyon5220 She was twenty five when she did Heathers.
@@lalalalalalwlla its crazy cus she was only 2 years out of college when they started this. she graduated in 2011 and they started in 2013 in LA
I am obsessed with her voice.
SAME
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE, HER VOICE IS SO PERFECT.
IKR
Ikr
Maggie Carpenter I know right, she made me gay
This is where the musical ends if you want a happy ending
lol, yup, the rest just gets fuckedup
@@casualcowboy1196 the rest? They’ve killed 3 people 😂
@@CJ-sp6lh this is correct. But after this is an attempted mass bombing on a school and a suicide of a main character
Thanks Lemony Snicket, lol
😭 Bruh
Ok I was looking at the title and background too long and I figured something out:
H. Chandler- Title (red)
H. McNamara- Subtitle (yellow)
H. Duke- Background (green)
IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
OH MY F---ING GOD YOU'RE A GENIUS
hence the “has no discernible personality” cuz she just fades into the background
Wait-
Is it weird that I still kinda don’t get it?
@@kikuoisthebestandnoonecant1915 Chandler was the leader (title), McNamara was her sidekick (subtitle), Duke was just there (background.)
Veronica:
We finish eachothers-
JD:
Murders.
This is beautiful
Veronica:
*heavy nervous breathing*
"That's what I was gonna say!"
this song makes me so emotional lol. It shows how Veronica really wants JD and loves him but his physcopathic side and just ahhh
Hey Laurens
isabella josephine yas
angry12yroldasian AHAHAHHAHAHHHHH THAT'S AMAZING
Lauren Lees MY DEAD, GAY SON!
Hey John
“you don’t choose who lives who dies whO TELLS YOUR STORY”
“SEVENTEEEEN EIGHTY ONE THE BATTLE OF YORKTOWN”
bm IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1989
THAT WAS A HELL OF A FISHING TRIP
OMG YASSS
Im late but YESSS
Seventeen does indeed rough. You are stuck between being treated like a child, but told to act like an adult.
I remember being 13.. everything is just a popularity contest and your caught in the middle of being a teenager to being a kid.
Yes, I happen to be 13. It's not the best...?
Swarley Weasley :// being kept on a leash isnt being treated like an adult
Exactly
Mahika Gupta Be glad you are 13, I’m 14 and I can conclude that it doesn’t get better.
what i find really sad is that at the end, it takes Veronica three times saying, "You're the one I choose" for JD to say it back. At the time, I'm sure she accepted it, but by the end of the musical, JD chooses rage and death over her...
SquishyFishy or you could think of it like this: he chose to die instead of her.
Well, he chose her in the END end. He died to save her and the people she cared about.
SquishyFishy If you kinda dig back. During Dead girl walking Reprise. There are 3 moments which end like this. JD defying veronica and her love only to end it all for her.
I think he kinda knew something would ruin them and didn't wanna risk himself getting hurt.
I call that pettiness
Well at the end he dies for her
I love how when they hold out the long note, JD doesn't move up or down. Veronica does. She changes for him.
Moongirl388 :0
he does actually go up a little!! not as high as veronica, but he does sorta match her pitch up! or that might just be vibrato that im mishearing as a step up but
@@bluerasbun nah he was just using vibrato
@@choco6369 aight!!! ty for informing me!!! /gen
Vibrato might’ve shown how he’s naturally stable when he’s with Veronica but is clinging on hard to his psychotic tendencies and erratic behaviour
[VERONICA]
Fine!
We’re “damaged”
Really “damaged”
But that does not make us “wise”
We’re not “special”, we’re not “different”
We don’t choose who lives or dies
Let’s be normal, see bad movies
Sneak a beer and watch tv
We’ll bake brownies or go bowling
Don’t you want a life with me?
Can’t we be seventeen?
That’s all I want to do
If you could let me in
I could be good with you
People hurt us
[J.D.]
Or they vanish
[VERONICA]
And you’re right, that really blows
But we let go-
[J.D.]
Take a deep breath
[VERONICA]
Then go buy some summer clothes
We'll go camping-
[J.D.]
Play some poker
[VERONICA]
And we’ll eat some chili fries
Maybe prom night
[J.D.]
Maybe dancing
[VERONICA]
Don't stop looking in my eyes
[J.D.]
Your eyes
[VERONICA]
Can't we be seventeen
Is that so hard to do?
[BOTH]
If you could let me in
I could be good with you
Let us be seventeen
If we still got the right
[VERONICA]
So what’s it gonna be?
I wanna be with you
[J.D.]
I wanna be with you
[VERONICA]
Wanna be with you
[BOTH]
Tonight
[VERONICA]
Yeah we’re damaged
[J.D.]
Badly damaged
[BOTH]
But your love’s too good to lose
[VERONICA]
Hold me tighter
[J.D.]
Even closer
[VERONICA]
I’ll stay if I’m what you choose
[J.D.]
Can we be seventeen?
[VERONICA]
If I am what you choose
[J.D.]
If we've still got the right
[VERONICA]
‘Cause you’re the one I choose
[J.D.]
You’re the one I choose
[BOTH]
You’re the one I choose
I love you.
Bro!!! Thank youuu so much
"..and you're right, it really blows"
yea something (or someone) will blow before you know it too, Veronica
MiniMimi nO
MiniMimi She will be blowin something too Lol 7w7
MiniMimi Shell end up blowin JD lel
I always so sad hearing this. I always think there's hope for JD and Veronica to live happily together. Then I think of the end of the musical. :(
same here
no matter how many times i listen to this song, it still hits me hard. I know JD is like an ass or whatever but you just listen to them together and just the voices mix perfectly and it makes me love them more hhhh
it hurts how normal JD is here, and in this one moment in the play, where veronica is nearly begging him and he’s so in love, thats he’s willing be changed, but he doesn’t choose her and that hurts like a FUCKING KNIFE
IT WAS SUCH A BAD IDEA TO LISTEN TO "I AM DAMAGED" BEFORE THIS ONE
nerdysweaters yup. I've done it. It hurts.
nerdysweaters okay so like you know how they're is a seventeen reprise what if instead of that one it was at the end of the musical and it's a softer and even sadder version with JD's ghost (yes that was extra I'm extra)
Bronze medal oh my god I'd cry so much
Everyone says they’re Hamilton trash while I’m over here being a Dear Evan Hansen and Heathers trash can.
Jett same
Jett don’t forget newsies
Jett im all three tbh
I'm Hamilton, dear Evan Hansen, and heather's trash
Jett YESSS MEEE
I wish people would stop comparing this musical to Hamilton. they're very different.
Alien Ash *But they are both A W E S O M E*
I don't know what you're seeing, but the comments I've seen talking about Hamilton are meant to be funny.
i dont even know what Hamilton is, why so many comments bout ittttt
taycat 34 it's another Broadway musical, and I'm fucking Hamiltrash
It's basically a musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton, who was one of the US's founding fathers. It mainly takes place during the American Revolution from what I understand from the soundtrack.
me: -listens to this song absolutely loving it and wishing i could experience this song with someone-
me: -listens to this song again and actually listens to the words-
veronica: “maybe prom night?”
JD: “maybe dancing?”
*SO YOUR TELLING ME THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A CUTE SCENE IN THIS MUSICAL WHERE VERONICA AND JD ARE AT PROM WITH THIER FRIENDS DANCING AND HAVING A GREAT TIME? JUST END THE MUSICAL HERE, AND ADD MAYBE LIKE VERONICA AND JD IN THE FUTURE WITH A KID*
Same
this is the exact song that made me confident in my voice. i've always been self-conscience about it and i avoided being loud with it. then i started singing this. never EVER have i sing that loud and felt good about it. fu c k i love this musical
ME TOO 😭❤️
same
i actually had such a similar experience. as crazy as it sounds, this musical is the first time i've been confident singing around other ppl.
GUESS WHAT SOMEONE SANG THIS SONG AT OUR SCHOOL TALENT THINGY thiNG IT WAS BEAUTIFUL
Lucy Goosey YAYA I LOVE THE TONIGHT PART I WISH TO SING THAT ON STAGE SOMEDAY
She really does sound like Wynona Ryder
so trueeee
Allison Belding ikr
Woah someone else in this comment section has seen the movie.. also agreed
Wiona* Ryder is a FREAKING LEGEND
Lexi Salvator She is my queen!
If you love heathers, you love hamilton. If you love hamilton, you love be more chill. If you love be more chill, you love dear evan hanson.
okay but i had this on shuffle and it played the reprise right after this
:')
me: wow i am such musical trash... i know every lyric in existence... what a nerd
me: *hasnt actually listened to wicked, newsies, rent, NOT EVEN LES MIS FOR GODS SAKE*
How about Rocky Horror?
angrymeme i didn't consider myself musical trash until i realized that i've seen all of those and more
angrymeme SAME
angrymeme SAAAAAAAAAME but rent seems reallyyy confusing sooo....
I can relate 😂 But yo....listen to Newsies. XD at least watch the movie.
I went out to the bay with my friend not knowing it was 3 days until i was going to move... I loved her, and we sang thing together while running around and acting it out next to the water. She never found out about my feelings, and the closest I got was being Veronica and singing "I want to be with you." It was the last time we hung out. I haven't seen her since and this song breaks my heart every time I hear it.
I had to listen to this after Riverdale's "Heathers" episode. I just needed to be happy for a moment after being mad at literally EVERYTHING in that episode
i prefer Lili and Cole singing Seventeen, sorry. But i didn't like the other songs on Riverdale.
Verena_fcb8 they sounded good, by i still prefer the original. The way they put the song in didn’t really capture the true meaning and heartache that this songs conveys. Not dissing the actors but the emotion just wasn’t the same as it’s meant to be.
I used to be really against the musical, but then I heard dead girl walking and it's so catchy, and then candy store, and then fight for me and now seventeen.... help !!
+anusthrasher “over 2000 anuses thrashed” 2000 thats how it begins...
just curious, why were you against it?
Cosima Niehaus is superior to all of us just that bullshit "why did they need to do it the original was perfect the way it is yadayadayadaa" bullshit. kind of embarrassing looking back
But now you see how /beautiful/ it is.
Shelbie Rose I applaud you
I listen to teenage anguish. *Be More Chill and Heathers*
Someone please set me free from these stories that depict teenage pain beautifully.
By far the best song in the show.
(The harmonies, ahhh)
I'M NOT CRYING YOU ARE
aren't we all?
+Cosima Niehaus is superior to all of us absolutely 💔
Honestly we're all crying here
See now I'm crying too. You're not alone. (You're not alone.)
why are you crying I LOVE THIS SONG
ITS TWENTY SEVENTEEN!!!!!
Lol
H4HONG no it's not
Putting "or they vanish" and "that really blows" together is a bold move
“we don’t choose who lives or dies” you sure about that?
I recently got into the fandom, And I also got myself back into the Hamilton fandom, I'm now currently reminding myself why I did this and how I can escape the never ending loop.
This song is so beautiful
Cosima Niehaus is superior to all of us is that a fucking joke (bc Veronicas thing is "beautiful" 😉)
E. Battle I posted this comment almost a year ago and I honestly have no idea whether it was intended to be a joke or not.
Is this a pun
I'm super happy I got to see Barrett Wilbert Weed in Bare, she gave me chills.
Awww, what a sweet song
*_Say "Hi" to God_*
nOOO
😭😭
I love the "I’ll stay if I’m what you choose" cause is really romantic but she is also telling him that she is not gonna stay by his side if he doenst stop with the killing.
My school did a performance of heathers last year and I actually managed to get the part of veronica and my voice broke like 3 times in this song alone but it didn't break during beautiful, dead girl walking or dead girl walking reprise cause those have some high notes and they hurt
YOU DID DEAD GIRL WALKING IN SCHOOL??!
@@yourbestfriend4861 they have a censored high school version, where it's a lot of hugging and walking back and forth aggressively
@@debigchonk4896 ‘a lot of hugging and walking back and forth aggressively’ why is this so funny to me
something about the beginning gives me emotions
This is going to be stuck in my head for the next month at least. It’s always one musical song I play on repeat over and over for a month
I swear there are so many people on here that are both Heathers and Hamilton trash. Myself included XD
littlemzrainbowz98 I'm just trash
littlemzrainbowz98 in the process of becoming heathers trash, and just theatre trash in general
Fatima .K Join us :D
littlemzrainbowz98 i don't have any choice lol
littlemzrainbowz98 yes. Just yes!
Ugh, the harmonies in this song are absolutely gorgeous. I die.
One thing I thought was intriguing (which has nothing to do with the song) is the art! The three Heathers, all seemingly the same, on the outside with copy-paste faces, but if you look, McNamara has her hair tight, trying to seem as perfect as possible, Duke knowing that she's relevent but still putting more effort in her hair with no flaws, while Chandler, someone who is dead-set in the mindset that whatever she did, she'd still be the queen bee, has little-to-no effort in her hair with just the iconic scrunchie and a messy pull-back. It really shows their personalities. Or, it was just a design thing and what I said had no meaning and was just useless rambling
CAN WE BE SEVENTEEEEEEEEEN
lil fabrizio IS IT THAT SO HARD TO DOOOOOO
IF YOU COULD LET ME INNNNNNN
hannah gwin *teacher voice* i dont know CAN you?
no
LYRICSSSSSSS🎉
Fine, we're damaged
Really damaged
But that does not make us wise
We're not special
We're not different
We don't choose who lives or dies
Let's be normal, see bad movies
Sneak a beer and watch TV
We'll bake brownies, or go bowling
Don't you want a life with me?
Can't we be seventeen?
That's all I want to do
If you could let me in
I could be good with you
People hurt us
Or they vanish
And you're right, it really blows
But we let go
Take a deep breath
And go buy some summer clothes
We'll go camping
Play some poker
And we'll eat some chili fries
Maybe prom night
Maybe dancing
Don't stop looking in my eyes!
Your eyes!
Can't we be seventeen?
Is that so hard to do?
If you could let me in
I could be good with you!
Let us be seventeen
If we've still got the right
So what's it gonna be?
I wanna be with you
I wanna be with you
Wanna be with you
Tonight!
Yeah, we're damaged
Badly damaged
But your love's too good to lose
Hold me tighter
Even closer
I'll stay if I'm what you choose
Can't we be seventeen?
If I am what you choose
If we've still got the right
'Cause you're the one I choose
You're the one I choose
You're the one I choose
TY I LOVE LYRIC PPL
Turned 17 an hour ago.
Everything was going wrong in life, it still is, but now I think I'm gonna be okay.
It is. Happy late birthday btw
A lot of people in this comment section are like “Oh this is the end. J.D and Veronica live happily ever after and no one dies.”
See I love Heathers (movie and musical) for many reasons. It’s not your typical high school movie.
I mean in high school movies nowadays, the girl would end up with the guy, everyone is happy and she gets everything she wants in life.
But Heathers is not your typical high school movie. I mean the first time I watched it I was like “Wow, is the school going to blow up? Is Veronica going to stop him?” I mean even now after all these years I am amazed by it. It’s such an amazing movie and so much better then your typical boy meets girl love story.
ryan mccartan is unreal
Mika Sugay amen
I came to listen to this song randomly and I realized… I’m seventeen now… what 😭
Last time I cried this bad, Micheal was in the bathroom
**is up at 3 am listening to heathers and catching the feels ** it’s so good and so sad 😭😭😭😭😭
Listening to this on my 17th birthday after I swore I would when I was 13/14 lmao
her voice is just so perfect like she fits veronicas role so well
and then JD gets to be 17 forever!
💀
cANT WE BE *JASON DEEEAAAAANNN*
what a lovely song to end the musical with
and then JD and veronica both put their murdering in the past, JD saw a therapist and learned to be normal and they lived long lives together 💜💜💜
jd blew up
can i be the be the dancing queen
be young and sweet
and only seventeen?
i’m seventeen right now yeehaw 🤠
How are you likening being twenty?
@@Thatrandomnon-binaryTurtle it’s really cool 😎 twenty has been awesome now I’m almost 21 🤣 let’s goooo
@@katysikkema the way you cutely replied within a day of a reply of a comment you made three years ago-
Shuffle played this song last. Makes me sad and happy. I’m sad because it’s my favorite song, but happy because now I can imagine that JD and Veronica got to be seventeen.
*and then the musical ends here and nobody dies*
Exept for ram and kurt and heather chandler...
I don’t know if I’m reading to deep into it, but the end when they’re doing the back and forth of “what do you choose” it’s almost like Veronica had to force it out of JD. He was still stuck on seventeen and everything else, and he didn’t say she’s what he chose until after she had to say it for him. Excuse me while I go and cry
I...
fine. we're damaged.
Really damaged…
@@stormcloud1981but that does not make us wise
The one make me tear up is our love is god and seventeen 😭
If you think about it, He kept the promise. He didn’t kill anyone else except for.. himself.
at 1:14 my friend and I always freak out because that harmony is the gosh darn coolest thing in the universe.
this song just rips my heart strings ;-;
“We don’t choose who lives or dies”
Me:
...YOU HAVE NO CONTROL
WHO LIVES WHO DIES WHO TELLS YOUR STORY-
is anyone a Heathers, Hamilton, AND 21 Chump Street trash?
OMG Y E S
sam the awkward one I guess I know my next musical now
WHAT THE HECK I GOTTA DOOOI TO BE WITH UUUUUU
sam the awkward one OH MY GOD YES
Um, IN THE HEIGHTS
I think it’s an important piece of foreshadowing that Veronica is the first to say “if I am what you choose, ‘cause you’re the one I choose” mainly because JD didn’t choose to love Veronica over murder and eventual suicide in the end.
So I'll be honest I didn't really care for the original Heather's movie. It just seemed so inhuman and held little to no emotional value to me. So when I heard the was a musical for Heather's I kinda just skipped over it until my girlfriend played this song in the car and I was like "Holy shit where is this from?" And she told me how this musical was far more to my liking and how they actually care about things and I am so happy this is wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time..
Obsessed with these harmonies😍
"We don't choose who lives or dies"
Well, surely if you kill them you're choosing that they die
JD never got past 17
And then the musical ended and NOBODY BLEW UP!
*Who Lives,Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story*
0:42 let me inside your heart. Oh, let me be a part of the narrative in the story they write someday.
Vincent Sta. Clara *thank you*
Um...Hamilton?
Same tho...
If me and my future husband don't sing this at our wedding while crying and sobbing while our guest looking at us like where crazy because they don't understand the emotional affection well have with the song(cuz iam dragging him to be a heathers fan)....... Then I don't want it
I'm only on here cuz the girl I like told me to look it up o.o it's pretty catchy cx wish me luck guys/girls :D
You like a theatre girl? Have fun, we're really freakin' awesome (and busy).
Ali Phillips lol she's really shy actually. I wish I was with a theater girl cx I do plays for my school c: tanks ^_^ she's never been in a play but wants to. Wants to out grow her shyness
She will. That's the cutest story ever good luck!
Ali Phillips tanks u very much!!! ^_^ I wanna introduce u to her now cx
Haha If only! You'll make it beautiful! (See Beautiful from above musical)
every damn time i hear this i have to sing along and cry over the feels, the damn feels 😣
does anyone else notice the heathers and the schuyler sisters have the same colors? no?
Lil H
well the heathers are red, green, and yellow, and the schuylers are pink, blue, and yellow so not really
Eliza wears green a couple of times
Jaylin Evans
oh really? i didnt realize
its still not really her main color though like people usually draw her in her blue dress
Lil H I mean honestly Peggy wears yellow but angie is pink and Liza wears blue
If you want to match the Heathers with someone, it's probably Chloe, Brooke, and Jenna from Be More Chill. The colors don't match but the personalities do.
H. C.- Chloe
H.D.- Jenna
H.M.- Brooke
I haven’t watched the show yet, I’m listening to the soundtrack first. I’ve so far gotten like 8 spoilers. I should really stop reading the comments.
JD: *Agreeing with Veronica about just being seventeen and not deciding who lives or dies*
Also JD: "LETS GO BLOW UP THE SKOOL!"
If JD actually stopped killing
20 years later
Veronica-Welcome home sweetie-wait is that blood,have you been killing again
To be completely honest, I liked the understudy for J.D. better.
The original JD was the guy singing in this right then Dan domenech and then that other guy right?
Dan Domench was awesome
+Cosima Niehaus is superior to all of us there's a bootleg out there?
Mairéad Young yeah. sites.google.com/site/bootlegsgalore/ You can find it at this link.
His Freeze Your Brain kicks ass, specifically his riff on vein like omg.
see, i find this REALLY sad because it sounds like JD is saying he really chooses her, but all he does is echo what she is saying. he mirrors back what he is seeing in her when it benefits him. such a subtle way of showing his mindset, even if it wasn't intentional.
veronica logic: even if your boyfriend is a psychopathic murderer, if you love him, stay!
God he’s so close to being saved here. For a moment he’d give it all up to settle down with her.
I relate to this song, especially the opening line.
I recently had a very close friend become a huge bully to a friend and I for absolutely no reason. When asked why I hardly fight back/ bully back to their antics I respond with:
“Fine, we’re damaged. Really damaged. But that does not make us wise. We’re not different, we’re not special, we don’t choose who lives or dies”
And they normally get the motto.