Saddam Fluff Piece: He Was Sooooo Brave!

Here's a horrible fluff piece (via, al-Reuters) about how composed Saddam was in the face of his vengeful execution: turning down tranquilizers, offering a Cuban cigar to a US guard, and upping his exercises routine. Why one would bother being in shape moments before their soul was ripped from their body, unrecognizably charred, and destroyed as chaff before a gale in Hell, I can't figure out?