I did a piece months ago on how horrible it is to die as a mobile suit pilot. The Gundam series never missed a chance to remind the audience that piloting a giant robot is not glamorous. Inside the confines of the cockpit, you will be flying into battle facing the morbid possibility that you could be blown to pieces, burned to death, crushed, impaled, vaporized or get shredded by shrapnel. You could consider yourself lucky if you just lose a limb. If you're really lucky, you might die a quick death, though your friends may risk their sanity by looking at your burned and unrecognizable corpse.