In Bonnie Parker's "The Trail's End," she illustrates how death was always upon:
"The road was so dimly lighted
there were no highway signs to guide.
But they made up their minds;
if all roads were blind,
they wouldn't give up till they died."
They perhaps knew they were going to die, and that was part of it. They weren't going to give up their cause of fighting the law.
I know that's beside the point, however, when you lead a life like that, death is the destination.