I didn't say deathfic wasn't for other readers -- but it definitely isn't for me. As a nurse, I have been there when people were dying, and been there when it happened. I was there when a baby died. Not a pleasant situation. I was there when my sister died. That was much worse than the phone call informing me that my father had died.

If someone has written such a fanfic, then I want plenty of warning. I don't want to go anywhere near it. And I want to reiterate. To those who haven't seen death: death is not romantic. It's ugly. And what the people left behind go through isn't romantic either. Those scenes on TV when the person closes his eyes and slips away -- it doesn't happen like that. I know. And you don't get over it in a few days.

Romantic tragedy is wonderful, but reality isn't. It's not something anyone wants to go through. I have, and I don't want a story to rub it in. That was why I asked that someone post a warning in the WHAM thread yesterday.

Nan

Earth is the insane asylum for the universe.