Buddhist concept of an enlightened being who delays their own final enlightenment to help others, used as an aspirational model for staying alive to help people.
"For a couple of years I was obsessed with Buddhism and I really liked the idea of the Bodhisattva who delays enlightenment to stay behind and help others. While I'm not quite arrogant enough to believe I'm enlightened, I guess I had this idea that I would try to approximate this by sticking around f"