: Re: Tension built upon whether the main character will commit suicide or not. Problem: I'm using first person narrative I'm writing a novel, called Animal Suicide, about a girl who tried to commit

@Berryessa137

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There is a very simple solution to the first-person-narrators-cannot-die-at-the-end rule:

Set the story in present tense.

If the story is set in present tense anything that happens later happens in the narrator’s future.

And the last breath of air rushed from my lungs, as blackness claimed my life.

Becomes

And the last breath of air rushes from my lungs, as blackness claims my-

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