I don't understand why rape isn't considered worse than murder. Throughout history, many people have preferred to die rather than suffer that fate. Slavery also.
Why do we praise Patrick Henry's speech given during the American Revolution which he concluded by saying "Give me liberty, or give me death!" --- if we actually feel that making someone a slave is not as bad as murder? Clearly if murder is the worse crime, then Patrick Henry had it wrong. He should have said: "Give me life, or give me slavery!!!" And offered to be a slave so as not to have to die or kill anyone else.