It may be, too, that because many of us here are female we like to think of the female protagonist as having been important enough and loved enough to cause Huge Grief when she dies, and maybe too that we want to skip the horrific bedlam that death is. Or maybe it's because, as women, we've been conditioned to see our self-worth not as intrinsic but as something that is conferred on us by others. So Extreme Grief and Suffering is the ultimate validation.
It's a pre-feminist notion but probably still out there.
c. (who is pleased to see that Pam has gone over to the Dark Side and embraced the Bad Pun - "beat the dead horse" )
btw no Black Beauty corssover deathfic please.
