Not even that, because then he was never able to face justice for all the atrocities he committed. If he just had a change of heart, realized he was an irredeemable monster and shot himself out of shame at the peak of his rule it would be commendable. Instead he took the cowards way out when he had no escape, no chance, and was moments away from being captured. That's not honorable, just another in his long list of lives ended as a direct result of his rule, with the silver lining being that this time his actions couldn't hurt any more people.

The coward didn’t want to be hanged in the red square