Everyone has a name, and some are willing to die to protect it. John Proctor was willing to die to keep his name clean of what he was being accused of. Elizabeth Proctor, or Goody Proctor, knew that her husband was a good man, and she wanted to support his choices. Goody Proctor thought that if she lied about what John had done that it would save his life, but he ended it on his own terms. John and Elizabeth Proctor had three sons and a baby on the way before John went to the noose. John knew what was about to happen and he made his peace with it. He could have wanted to die because of the guilt he felt from what he did was so heavy, that dying was the only way out. A true way of telling Abigail that nothing could get him to love her over