I have often observed in the writings of many of my Christian friends raising an important issue on dying for faith saying, "because of faithful men like Peter and Paul, as well as the other disciples, Christianity flourished". Here is the story of Paul from the Bible. Please read on keeping the question in the title in mind, because I feel that faith and death do not gel well.
When Saul of Taurus, later named Paul, appeared in Jerusalem to report to James and the elders regarding his recent missionary journey to Cyprus and Syria he found the rumor widespread that he was teaching Jews living in Gentile countries to forsake the laws of Moses. Despite all that he could do to show his loyalty to this law, Paul was set up by a mob and would have been killed had not Claudius Lysias, chief captain of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, rescued him.