{"id":1403899,"date":"2019-08-13T10:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1403899"},"modified":"2019-08-13T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:46:26","slug":"9-of-the-most-satisfying-deaths-in-fiction-ranked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/9-of-the-most-satisfying-deaths-in-fiction-ranked\/","title":{"rendered":"9 of the Most Satisfying Deaths in Fiction, Ranked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are many good feelings, but perhaps none quite as good as when a character you just can’t STAND finally, finally<\/em> bites it\u2014preferably in a way that is embarrassing yet entirely on-brand. For instance, I will probably die alone in my apartment while choking on soup, and if my life were a novel, readers would say, \u201cYes, that makes sense, and thank God.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, some literary deaths are more satisfying than others, and not all of them are satisfying in quite the same way. Because we are dealing with a sliding scale here (some literary deaths have me fist pumping egregiously on public transit, others merely garner a gratified smirk), today we will be ranking them accordingly.<\/p>\n

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There are many good feelings, but perhaps none quite as good as when a character you just can’t STAND finally, finally bites it\u2014preferably in a way that is embarrassing yet entirely on-brand. For instance, I will continue reading<\/span>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[438,628,2335,6942,524,32,25017,4883,23731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403899"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418928,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403899\/revisions\/1418928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}