“HAVE YOU NOT SEEN THOSE WHO BEING IN THOUSANDS, LEFT THEIR HOMES TO ESCAPE DEATH? SO TO THEM ALLAH SAID, “BE DEAD.” THEN HE RAISED THEM ALIVE. SURELY, ALLAH IS ALL-GRACIOUS TO PEOPLE, BUT MOST OF THE PEOPLE ARE NOT GRATEFUL.” (SURAH AL-BAQARAH: 243)

Part 4

The third injunction that can be derived from this verse is that it is Hara'am (impermissible) to run away from Jihad because of fear of death. This has been stated in another verse in the following words:

THOSE WHO SAID ABOUT THEIR BRETHREN, WHILE THEMSELVES SITTING, "HAD THEY OBEYED US, THEY WOULD HAVE NOT BEEN KILLED." SAY, "THEN REPEAL DEATH FROM YOURSELVES IF YOU ARE TRUE". (SURAH AL-IMRAN: 168)

Meaning that rather than worrying about other people' life or death worry about yourselves and save yourselves from dying. It is not only those  who go to Jihad who will die. Those who stay at home will definitely experience death too. 

From Ma’ariful Quran, by Mufti Muhammad Shafi RE