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Frankly, there should be no problem finding an audiance. A particular Young Adult in my closer family devours such unhappy, dystopious stories. She does get very upset when people die or don't "get each other" at the end, but returns to those books again and again...

Me, personally, I'm not so much interested in love stories, but I recall some of the most intense moments when reading books where people die or get separated with finality. For example, the elves in the LOTR/Silmarillion (the books) practically exist to fulfill the endless trope of being separated by time and circumstances.

Ending a book with "$LONG_TIME_FAVOURITE then went away, and was never seen again" can have great emotional impact, and give a sense of closure as well - death obviously being the final version of that. For example, the last book of Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Quartet ends several characters in this or a similar way, partly prolongued over many chapters, and it is a very strong work, in my opinion.

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