Death...

Death scares me to hell and back. I only bring this up because a friend of mine and I were talking about characters in stories. I said, without thinking, that real people die and characters shouldn't. Then she said that, that shouldn't be the case, they should be like real characters. This made me realize just how entirly death scares me. It scares me so much that I'm afraid to have something that related to me die. Even just a character feels like a part of me, and it would honestly scare the hell outta me to have to write a death for any of them.