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Nothing to kill or die for.
The Doctor sometimes wonders if the young man who wrote those words was a fool or a prophet, but he knows what Jamie would say. How he misses that boy and his occasionally misplaced sense of honor. He was a fighter through and through; equally willing to die for his Clan or kill for his Doctor.
If Jamie had perished at Culloden, he would certainly consider it an honourable ending, but the Doctor chooses to believe that Jamie survived to become a respected elder.
That way he has a chance to see him again.