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I guess what I'm trying to do is make an observation that there seems to be an assumption that a deathfic label is only about giving away the ending to a story, i.e. it's content.
Actually, I wasn't thinking of a 'label' in that context at all. I was merely thinking of what constitues a deathfic for me, while I'm reading it. Do I class it as deathfic or not? In the same way I'd say a story I just read was a kidfic or a tearjerker.

I wasn't at all thinking of it in the context of labelling a fic in respect of 'does it need to be labelled so those who don't like deathfic can avoid it'. Despite it being the core debate on this thread, that aspect just wasn't in my mind at all when I last posted.

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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.

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