Thread: Sacrifice and Death in characters - Writing Forum

That's why I'm so conflicted. I have a really nice scene planned for his death/sacrifice, but this new direction for the character has me doubting in which direction I should go. I suppose I should write out both and see which one feels right. I'm still on my first draft, so maybe I'll just write out my first idea and revisit the scenario on the second draft.

Well, it depends on your message - if you're going for realistic and heroic, death might be better. Somehow a hero dying has great impact - like in Gran Torina - spoilers below:

Or here's another death that was tragic but absolutely necessary, in an anime called Death Note (it's excellent, if you haven't seen it but are going to, rather don't read the spoiler - it's actually that great and the spoiler is rather huge):

Or, if you're going for an inspirational message, or for example if your book is more for YA audience, then your hero probably shouldn't die.

Source: http://www.writingforums.org/showthread.php?t=61029

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