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There are a few ways to solve this: 1) Switch narrators. Everything is told by your main character until his/her death, at which point some other character finishes the story. 2) Your narrator ...
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2019-12-13T12:00:15Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T02:48:48Z (over 4 years ago)
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There are a few ways to solve this: **1) Switch narrators.** Everything is told by your main character until his/her death, at which point some other character finishes the story. **2) Your narrator continues narrating from after death in some supernatural fashion.** Your narrator could become a ghost or spirit, wander disembodied, communicate through Ouija board/séance, etc. This was done very subtly in the novel [Song of Achilles,](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0062060627) written from the first-person perspective of Achilles's partner Patroclus. Patroclus is killed by Hector. (I assume I'm not spoiling anyone for the Trojan War...) But for the Greeks, a person's soul couldn't enter Hades (the underworld) until s/he was given proper funeral rites and his/her grave marked. So Patroclus is able to stay on as a disembodied soul for the last 15% of the book, telling us what happened after his death. (I won't spoil the ending of that novel. Go read it. Moving, beautiful, amazing. I cried.) **3) Switch narrative styles.** If it's literally only a page and a half, change to a third-person narrative style, maybe even set it in italics, to make it clear it's an epilogue because your first-person narrator is dead. Or have a series of newspaper articles, blog posts, emails, letters, etc. reporting/discussing what happened after your narrator's death. **ETA** **4) See the answers to this question: [Ways for main character to influence world following their death](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/5740/ways-for-main-character-to-influence-world-following-their-death)** I'd forgotten about this question earlier. It's not a duplicate by any means, since your story is not interactive, but you may find something useful in those answers.
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2013-04-09T11:36:57Z (about 11 years ago)
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