First of all, you’ll have to be prepared to try and create/overthrow a few rules. However, such is the price you pay for the most fabulous and decadent death possible. After the necessary steps have been taken, construct an elegant, full sized Roman Colosseum and instil yourself as emperor. Enslave a large amount of people as gladiators, and make the resulting games as brutal as possible. (As an aside, if you charge the public for entry to these games, you can leave quite a bit of money for your next of kin.) Make it known that you are a brutal and unfair ruler, and execute as many popular warriors as possible.

Eventually, a brave, strapping young lad will be removed from his family and forced to fight in the arena for your deranged pleasure. Beating all the odds, he will climb up the gladiatorial ladder, and gain more and more influence. Eventually, he will lead the other warriors into a revolution, and in a stunning battle you will finally be cornered. You desperately try to fight back, but the Hero’s deadly, practised combat moves and strong, firm body completely outclbum your feeble sword strokes, flabby and decadent form.

Instead of executing you outright, like the hundreds of lives you so cruelly took yourself, he leaves you mortally wounded, bleeding out on the floor, leaving you time to think about the horror you have unleashed until you finally die like a dog. (As, I believe, was your original intention.) Just before the Hero leaves the room, you call out to him. Your final words on this earth, are the words our manly Hero would least expect. “Thank you…”.

The Hero, his purpose fulfilled, and his belief in the meaning of his work shaken due to your final cryptic words, will look wistfully one last time upon the brutal charnel house that he once called home, and will then depart to an uncertain future, never to be heard from again.

As an added bonus, it’s entirely likely that several prominent film makers will be queueing up to make a movie about your life and works, with many a remake to follow, ensuring that you would be respected and feared in death as you could only wish you were in life.