I found this HDD in my basement. I remember that I had two Seagate HDD long time ago. One developed click of death so I throwed it in garbage, other (this one) didn't develop it but I thought it would so I putted it in a basement and forgot about it. I think I read that it is possible to fix click of death with a firmware. Is that true?

Click of death is usually heads problem which is not something you can fix easily with firmware or any DIY solution.

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Yes, 7200.11 serie above 750 GB whith faulty fw can produce head clicking sounds.
If this is the case then you will notice that after head clicking it will spin down, then it will automatically spin-up again after few seconds and the cycle will continue.
But if heads are damaged, after head click sound it will spin down and it will stay like that until you repower the drive.

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My firmware database:
https://mega.nz/folder/O01DkBRI

So I can throw it in a e-waste despite that it hasn't developed Click of death?

I was thinking of using it as a backup but I imagine that it has inevitably destiny so there is no point in doing that.