I was thinking... I'm writing a story in which the protagonist is dead and alive at the same time and for the time being, has acess to the afterlife. If she performs certain tasks, she's able to pick between living or dying.
But since the afterlife plays such an important role in the story and we would be able to see them after they die (even though not the characters)... Character death wouldn't cause a great impact on the reader, right?
And assuming I manage to make the heroine likeable, no would would try to strangle me the main character died at the end. Or not?