All I can say basically is that I agree. Especially about the greiving part, but not only from other characters in the story. I don't like characters being killed off not because of some abstract payoff from the character that I will then miss out on, but because I knew the character, and most likely liked them. And if they die in the book then they're gone and I'm sad because, well, they died and they're not going to get to live out their character-life and I'm not going to meet them again. If the people in the story grieve this tempers it a little bit, but I'm still less likely to reread the story knowing a character I like dies. And the more characters who die, the less likely I am to reread the book.
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All I can say basically is that I agree. Especially about the greiving part, but not only from other characters in the story. I don't like characters being killed off not because of some abstract payoff from the character that I will then miss out on, but because I knew the character, and most likely liked them. And if they die in the book then they're gone and I'm sad because, well, they died and they're not going to get to live out their character-life and I'm not going to meet them again. If the people in the story grieve this tempers it a little bit, but I'm still less likely to reread the story knowing a character I like dies. And the more characters who die, the less likely I am to reread the book.