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Should an author’s dying wish be honored?
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Terry Pratchett ordered his unfinished novels to be steamrolled when he died. But historically, many authors' death wishes have not been honored. Luckily, in this case, Pratchett's writing assistant carried out the order to a T. Guess we won't be seeing another Discworld book after all. His daughter has even said she won't create any more Discworld books, as it was her Dad's world, not hers.
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@LostElephantInc

3 months ago

My dumb ass was wondering how steamrolling notebooks and paper would destroy them, right up to the end😂😂

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@lukatv9861

3 months ago

Also, Nabokov said to NOT put a girl on the cover of Lolita. Look up the book . what's on the cover? A young girl. The two prints we have in my family have one with heart shaped glasses and looking over them, the other with a lollipop.

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@raidenvakarian9362

3 months ago

As an author myself, I 100% get why he wanted this. Books are often garbage until they're way in the deep stages of editing, so if you saw his unedited manuscripts, they'd probably be terrible - not at all something he'd want anyone to see. And if someone else was to edit them into a presentable form without his input, then they'd no longer be his.

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@hamsterdoom360

3 months ago

I learned two things.
1. Terry Pratchett is dead. 😢
2. Terry Pratchett's assistant is a real one.

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@eat00002

4 months ago

Good, rest in peace and atleast someone respected the last fucking wish of the author

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@starseeker1334

3 months ago

Publishing letters someone asked to be private is fucking vile


Edit: thanks for 4k likes, i saw a big debate below

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@vevaren8155

3 months ago

As much as i would have killed to read those last 10 books, it makes me happy to no end to know that his writing assistant was so respectful. A Blink Of The Screen will have to do~

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@887frodo

4 months ago

This is a very polarizing issue.
This year alone, we had “En Agosto Nos Vemos”—the final book Marquez wrote, now published posthumously. A project even Rushdie expressed concerns about because Marquez himself did not wanted for it to see the light of day.
On account of his own sons, during the final years of his life, Marquez mental state had deteriorated so badly, he would read a book, praise its writing and claim he wanted to write something like it, only to reach the end and see his own picture on the sleeve. At which point he would get happy and confused and start the book again to see what he had written. Rinse and repeat…
Yet the book was published unfinished with the go-ahead from Marquez’ editor.

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@caleightilson8030

3 months ago

An artist i followed died several years back and a journal company took her art and put out journals with her art on the covers and insisted that it was ok because that had started talking to her about it before her sudden death. There was a screen shot of text messages that showed they were contacting her about it, but there was no confirmation from her that she wanted to participate at all. I pissed me off so muc, because it wasnt even a week after shed died

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@ldystardust

3 months ago

Victor Hugo specified that his poetry should never be made into songs, but never imagined nobody would turn not one but two of his novels into musicals (les miserables and the hunchback of Notre Dame)

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@victoriadiesattheend.8478

3 months ago

Fans who had read Sir Terry's books for the last 20 years could see from "Unseen Academicals" and onward that his dementia was finally affecting his writing. He was no longer what he had been, and he had the same feelings about that that I do....which is he never wanted to be remembered that way. I don't think the last five novels he wrote would have been publishable without the help of Rhianna, his daughter and his assistant. Honoring his wishes showed how much they truly loved him by doing what he wanted, but it was also protecting what Sir Terry had created. Why put out lesser quality work that he had created while he was suffering from an illness that cruelly took from him the greatest gift he had, his mind & writing ability? Why hurt the Discworld for others and harm what Sir Terry in his right mind created with such love and care? In this case, it was the right thing to do.

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@crd2815

3 months ago

It is honestly infuriating that people will disregard the last wishes of the dead because they want to make money off them.

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@user-ko8qx3db5g

4 months ago

Virgil ordered the Aeneid be destroyed from his deathbed, but upon his death Augustus Caesar overruled him.

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@triplestaff

3 months ago

The only writings published posthumously I support is J.R.R Tolkien's, since it was done by his son Christopher, who's a major reason J.R.R came up with middle earth in the first place, and who knew that world just as well as his dad.

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@theforestofoak

3 months ago

and his one of his other dying wishes, that Good Omens gets an adaptation, came true too

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@Ax-xo4ux

3 months ago

Honestly- as a gigantic fan- I’m extraordinarily ecstatic that his last wish was honored.

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@stevenhedge2850

3 months ago

It helps that sir terrys executor was his daughter rhianna who had a good relationship with her father and cares about his legacy so shewould follow through with it

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@Covah86

3 months ago

I guess he thought it was worth doing. All the negative comments are just proving him right.

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it." - Terry Pratchett

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@BooksandBuns

3 months ago

It's so common to disrespect a dying person's death wish, not just among authors. A famous doctor was discovered to be a transman because his dying wish, for no one to undress him, was disrespected & he was found out to have female anatomy. It's horrible that things like that even happen

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@fabulousphoenixboy

3 months ago

as a writer and artist, I'm horrified by the amount of commenters who feel entitled to a creator's work regardless of said creator's last wishes.

I have no doubt there'll be oodles of unreleased writing & visual art left behind when I am gone.

I'd be fine, happy even, for a lot of it to be shared, even unfinished, for anyone who might be interested in a closer look at my creative process.

but there's also a lot of stuff that is far too personal for public consumption.

and I sure as hell hope my loved ones respect me enough to honour my last wishes re. which is which.

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