Nice, intense movie. The quote is actually "never out of the fight", not "never add to the fight", which means your comment on the latter needs an amend.
The most terrible of deaths is one that is long-drawn-out and inevitable. Every laboured breath that follows its raspy predecessor seems like a waste of time, a cruel and forceful stretching out of the wispy strands of life for the expense of a joke to amuse an ultimately indifferent god. This is why a soldier dying out in an extremely treacherous terrain, under hostile fire, and without any hope of rescue might behave with surprising valour - because these last few minutes of his life are when the soldier is at his bravest.
The unavoidably staunch knowledge of approaching deat....