The Taxonomy of Deaths in Storytelling

[Story_Marc]

And with this video, I completed the taxonomy of deaths in storytelling series I... accidentally stumbled into. This one was genuinely the hardest out of the set, but I think I cracked this one. Hopefully...

Full playlist here if you want all four types of deaths explored:

If you can think of a form of it I somehow missed, I'm definitely open to hearing about it!

 

[Hads]

And with this video, I completed the taxonomy of deaths in storytelling series I... accidentally stumbled into. This one was genuinely the hardest out of the set, but I think I cracked this one. Hopefully...

Full playlist here if you want all four types of deaths explored:

If you can think of a form of it I somehow missed, I'm definitely open to hearing about it!

This is quite timely, thanks for that.

 

[bulmabriefs144]

The video assumes that the grief part of death is the point. I think if you're philosophy is not "Death is serious business guys," then there's less risk in undermining your story. Like in one of my books, the main character could reset time. So the story got absurd at times, but when a character was revived, it wasn't a big deal. But then I explained at one point that time reversal does have limits, as at one point, they were stuck in a time loop.

Dragon Ball Z manages to undo death because the story is "death is nothing to fear because we have wishes." Even so, you can only bring the same person back one time usually. Btw, Krillin's death is so weird. Goku is eating food, and it's like "He's not been back in awhile." And then this this weird slow take and Goku (somehow realizes that Krillin is gone). It's somehow so sad and yet so awkward.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Would it be appropriate to say "you killed it" without specifying which type of killing you did?

 

[Story_Marc]

The video assumes that the grief part of death is the point. I think if you're philosophy is not "Death is serious business guys," then there's less risk in undermining your story. Like in one of my books, the main character could reset time. So the story got absurd at times, but when a character was revived, it wasn't a big deal. But then I explained at one point that time reversal does have limits, as at one point, they were stuck in a time loop.

Dragon Ball Z manages to undo death because the story is "death is nothing to fear because we have wishes." Even so, you can only bring the same person back one time usually. Btw, Krillin's death is so weird. Goku is eating food, and it's like "He's not been back in awhile." And then this this weird slow take and Goku (somehow realizes that Krillin is gone). It's somehow so sad and yet so awkward.

If grief isn't the point (which is fine if it isn't, I just note that's it's typical power), then it likely falls into the various scenarios I mention for when it works. Regardless, your example falls into literally what I said on scenarios when its mythical, allegorical, or cyclical. The fact that you bring up a time loop -- cyclical -- supports my point.