Hi.
I think it was Bono who said that, for him, every death in his life is the same one - each death brings up the death of his mum when he was a teenager.
I think, for a similar reason, that this is why heroic, sacrificial deaths in fiction affect me so much - when a soldier stays behind and holds a corridor against the greatest heroes of his time, fighting through the night, one on one, before falling, just so his closest friend and brother in arms can escape (and who leaves him no choice, by way of tossing the rope the friend had climbed down from the window) it is to me the same hero dying to save his love.
When the lord of a superreal realm allows himself to die at the hands of his sister, so that powers almost as ancient as him will not destroy his kingdom, it is to me the same sacrifice to save a world.
It is by this revelation that I know that, despite what I may have thought, The Cross does affect me emotionally. Jesus? Thank you so much, my love, my brother, my friend.
SamfiSh
Note: fiction mentioned is Troy: Fall of Kings by David Gemmell & Sandman: The Kindly Ones 13 and The Wake Series by Neil Gaiman
