A fictional character death you are still not over?

[OneUmberJoker]

Marley's in Marley and me

Of course I meant Ann Shirley! My long standing unrequited love of Gilbert Blythe overcame me for a second…. It was such a wonderful description of a house in grief.

In books Cory in flowers in the attic. Beth in Little women.
in film the champ (in The Champ). Macauley Kulkin in My Girl.

Surely Derek as well?

You do know they are the same actor don't you? I wonder if on his CV it says, "Make people sad when any character I play dies"

@PegDope I was in bits reading about The Thirteen 😭

I'm still not over Lee Scorsby and Hester,

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face as close as she could get, and then they died"

It hurts my heart just writing that 💔

Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light.

I haven't read The Mirror and the Light but his death scene in the BBC adaptation was so well done, the way he was ostensibly apologising to the king but speaking to the ghost of Wolsey.

Do read it (but only after the other two books!). I found Mantel’s depiction of the death scene so moving, I wept. See also the death of Hamnet in that wonderful book.

“As Beth had hoped, the 'tide went out easily', and in the dark hour before dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh.”

You’re welcome. You can thank me later.

Devastating isn't it. Such quietly powerful writing.

The fall through the air of a true wise friend called Piggy 😪

Thomas Jefferson in My Girl - "he can't see without his glasses"...

I can’t remember which book, but when Marie died at home in one of Antonia Forest’s stories, the way her classmates reacted was a revelation to me as a young teenager. She was an unpopular girl, but some of them rewrote history about her, talking about how much they had liked her. Miranda, however, was cross, saying something like if she hadn’t died and just not come back to school
they could have just forgotten about her. Quite strong stuff for a kid’s book!

@CurlewKatewas it not Lawrie who said that? I think the next line was something about how 'this was more unfeeling than even Tim cared for' or something like that.

These are absolutely my favourite childhoid books, I still re-read them every few years!

Very likely! Perfect excuse to re read! I think it was Miranda who vetoed the letter with “passed away” in it. I remember that practically every day on Mumsnet…..

Emma in One Day. I wish I’d never watched it.

Matthew in Anne of Green Gables . Sobbed for hours.

@CurlewKateIndeed! I remember agreeing that the word 'died ' should be used. Until my own darling dad died a few years ago and I, in texting friends, used the phrase 'passed on' as I simply could not bear to use the words 'died' or 'dead', it was simply too painful. I expressed tbis opinion on MN one time in support of another poster and the comments from some people were horribly harsh - zero empathy or compassion for people in the midst of grief.

Anyway... 😃

Peter Quinn - homeland . Although his death was almost a relief after what they did to his character - awful. One of the worst things I’ve seen on tv.