Since deathfics interest me so much, I want to emphasize that when a writer kills a fictional character, for example Lois, then the writer chooses to kill Lois. It is a conscious choice. The author could have written his or her story differently and allowed Lois to survive.
Similarly, a writer also chooses to, say, punish Lois and allow Clark to move on. That is also a conscious choice.
In real life these things just happen to us. In fiction they don't. It is the writer who pulls the strings of his or her fictional characters. The writer allows the characters to be happy or sentences them to unhappiness or death.
Ann
