Stannis getting destroyed in an off the screen pathetic manor sums up exactly how his life had changed.
He murdered his brother, sacrificed his daughter, his wife killed himself.
His troops abandoned him. His sell-swords (Mercs) left.
He had transformed from a person wanting the good of the Kingdom to a power hungry maniac willing to do anything to get it.
His final act of insanity was marching a starving, undermanned, no cavalry army to certain doom.
As so many before him his final moments (assuming he is dead) were realizing this was all his fault. Summed up by the "Any final words" response
Like all the characters in this world, Stannis had good and bad traits. Was he a hero or a villian? He changed several times.
In the end he got a pathetic ending as he had become a pathetic man.
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