The path he chose,(and some may argue,the one that he was forced into),while noble, in the sense of protecting the Corleones, turned out to be the great tragedy of his life.
He lost everything, his brothers,his wives,his children,and eventually,his beloved daughter,gave the Corleone Family business to Vincent, and died broken and alone.
It is not the path he was forced to choose, It is the wife he chose that done him in
