What do you think is the saddest or most inspirational fictional character death?

@EuphoricTurtle

The Mother Earth and Father Time song was the song of my first dance when i got married.

@EuphoricTurtle Like she basically worked herself to death to keep wilbur from the slaughter house.

@CestManan True, but then he guards her egg sac during the winter effectively saving all her children and three of them stay behind to live with him.

DAMMIT you're gonna make me cry!

Now I'm going to have to watch some mindless violence to even things out

@EuphoricTurtle Well, maybe this will offer some comic relief -
Okay so he was whining and cowering through most of the movie at the prospect of being slaughtered.
But then when Charlotte announced she didn't have long to go, he said something about how he would gladly give his life to her.

My thought, even as a kid, was, "Yeah right, then he would be acting like a coward if it really came to that."

Nothing ever happened to Templeton. No, he got married, had a family, and lived a happy life.

Once again the good die young while the a-holes live a good life. Is there a lesson there?

@CestManan I'm not sure of that. I believe that at that point he realized he was more interested in saving her life than his own life. He valued someone else higher than himself because they had given him so much.

@EuphoricTurtle I have been through something similar a couple times in life.
Problems are never solved, just rearranged.

@CestManan Some problems have no solution.
Like Jason Silva said (I'm not sure if he wasn't quoting someone else at the time)
- love is the answer to death, although it certainly doesn't solve it.

Wilbur's love for Charlotte was the answer to his fear of his own mortality, although it certainly didn't solve it.

@EuphoricTurtle Since you are more familiar with the movie (I saw it back in 1983, once) I wonder something -

At the fair, some other pig had won first place, how did wilbur end up winning later instead?

@CestManan the county fair decides to honour the miraculous pig and give him a medal and money, and at that point the farmer announces he will be allowed to live until old age.

@EuphoricTurtle she died? 😭😭

@SW-User should've added a spoiler alert 😆

@Pikachu wow that's pretty intense.

@CestManan @SW-User @EuphoricTurtle

What everyone seems to be missing is that many if not most spider species naturally die after they lay eggs; it is their normal life cycle.

Still sucks but I'm just saying she didn't work herself to death; she would have died regardless.

@Eternity Still a shame though that she did all that and then just had to die.

@Eternity I'm just glad they didn't go with matriphagy. That would have traumatized me

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@EuphoricTurtle Not much different than humans really where the young are basically parasites. Though young humans do not devour their parents, they often DO eat their parents out of house and home. Teenage males are the worst.

But sticking to spiders, check out the effects that drugs have on spiders.

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@CestManan omfg that’s my bands name !! Spiders on Drugs 🎶🤘🎸we definitely 🗿!! 😎