Strangely, there's probably a huge amount of people who would love nothing more than to have all of that attention and then die on mars with everyone watching.
Mars does have a risk that the early settlers didn't have though, which is an instantaneous death of the entire community due to some type of life support system failure. That would be extremely heartbreaking.
I'd hope that by the time there's attempts at a major colony on Mars, we'd be smart enough to set up multiple redundant systems for everything even if it costs more...
Mars does have a risk that the early settlers didn't have though, which is an instantaneous death of the entire community due to some type of life support system failure. That would be extremely heartbreaking.