Comment by AlotOfReading
3 days ago
Death usually is a happy ending in his stories. It's ascension to paradise and being freed from mortal suffering. It makes more sense if you're a deeply religious man from the 19th century than it does today, admittedly.
78% of the world population are religious today, per e.g. Statista.
Yeah but not every religious writer considers suffering and death a happy end.
Being religious is not quite the same thing as having a cultural frame of reference where death is a happy ending.