(This was bedrock edition) This one time I was playing on my survival world and it took me about 12 hours to get to the end
although I did have a hard time finding the nether fortress, and a warped forest for ender pearls
I was about to die and my armor was almost broken (still had enough iron on me) I managed to get 14 ender pearls, as well as 6 blaze rods, I set up shop for the next 2 nights in the side of a desert mountain when I went searching for the stronghold none of my eyes of ender broke which was very surprising, when I got into the stronghold it took me about 10 minutes to get to the portal room, I had an extra eye when I filled it, I spawned covered in endstone (aka: the usual), I traveled over to my first tower, towered up with cobblestone, when I was about to take out my first tower I forgot to use my shield when the ender dragon hit me and sent me flying, I didn't have fast enough reflexes to switch to my hay bale in time, so I died of fall damage, I didn't set my spawn point in the end portal room so I just gave up, It was my first time getting to the end legitimately and I was so close to beating the game for the first time... it's been 6 years since I got Minecraft...
sorry for this being so long
I had to tell you this even though this death is also because I suck at aiming with bows and crossbows
May not be weird... but it is a hard death for me...