Yeah, no, tigers are nicer. They at least LET you die.
Hera's the kind to send you off on a journey of twelve labors, each increasingly harder and more dangerous. Or turn you into a cow. Or send the birth goddess to draw out your birth as long as she wants, to kill you AND the baby.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)