Yes, I'm well aware of how some here will stop at nothing to ensure a certain Pokemon fanfic author is never forgotten (to which I say I wish you wouldn't- her site and fics are long gone and I for one want to forget her and her fics). However, even if I do want to forget her, there is one thing and one thing only I kind of agree with her on: "meet you in heaven" fics.

No, her over-dramatic reactions to those weren't justified. However, I don't understand why an author would kill off a character they supposedly love so much, then have the other half of their preferred pairing grieve (at the very least, never finds any one else) until they die themselves. It makes no sense to me, even when one or both characters involved died in canon. I also don't see how meeting again in Heaven is supposed to "make it all better", (not to to start a bog religious debate, but) especially for anyone who doesn't believe in Heaven or any form of afterlife.

Pokemon? That sounds like the Titanic fandom.

To each their own, I suppose. It's a fairly common device in original fiction as well.

Sometimes people like to cry. You might as well wonder why there's so much pornographic fanfic out there.

I liked one once that was Padme forgiving Anakin in force heaven. there was an official SW novel where Vader's ghost came to Leia for forgiveness too.

I could take or leave them. Personally, I want to see a "meet you in Heaven" fic where the one who bit it first chews out their one true love for making them wait so long.

^ This is something I would actually enjoy reading.