Deaths...

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30 Day Book Meme: – Day 29 - Saddest character death OR best/most satisfying character death (or both!)

This answer seriously needs a cut tag for spoilers for the Dunnett novels, the Bujold novels, and A Song of Ice and Fire, and others...

1. Dorothy Dunnett writes the best death scenes ever. In the Lymond novels:
   
   
   • The death of Khaireddin after the chess game
     
   • The death of Christian Stewart
     
   • The death of Wat Scott
     
   • The death of Will Scott
     
   • The death of Turkey Mat
   
   
2. In the Bujold novels: the death of Aral Vorkosigan inCryoburn, sadly not shown directly, but heartbreaking nonetheless
   
3. In The Game of Thrones, the shocking death of Eddard Stark
   
4. The death of Sydney Carton in A Tale of Two Cities