Giving it up for someone

In a poem by the Chinese-American translingual writer, Ha Jin, titled, To Ah Shu, a line queries, "How can we tell sacrifice from suicide?"

To which my answer is: I can't, so I won't.
There may be people who will trade their kingdom for a pearl, but how can I be sure you are the real thing--and will stay the real thing? Forgive me for being blasphemous, babe, but, pretty and desirable as you are, you are not the Resurrection. Find someone else to martyr himself for you. I never found necrophilia appealing anyway.