Alaska Young dies in a car crash after leaving campus in the middle of the night, and her friends Miles and the Colonel never learn if it was an accident or suicide.

The Ring is destroyed when Gollum falls into Mount Doom, and Aragorn is crowned king.

Tita and Pedro finally make love after years of separation, and Pedro dies of joy.

Will Traynor, paralyzed in an accident, goes ahead with his plan to end his life at Dignitas in Switzerland, even though he loves Louisa Clark.

Jennifer North dies by suicide after learning she has breast cancer, and Neely O’Hara’s career collapses into addiction.

The old man reading a love story to a woman with Alzheimer’s in a nursing home is Noah Calhoun, and the woman is his wife, Allie.

Poppy and Alex finally admit they love each other after years of friendship and one disastrous summer trip to Palm Springs.

Unlike the Disney film, the novel ends in death.

Bruno, the son of a Nazi commandant, digs under the fence at Auschwitz to help his friend Shmuel find his father, and both boys are killed in the gas chamber.

Uncas is killed by Magua, and Cora is killed by another Huron.