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* The dignified suicide of [[spoiler:Unity, the Auditor who became human, [[HumanityIsInfectious found that she loved it]], but also that it [[HumanityIsInsane made her incurably insane to the point that she just couldn't go on]] and chose to [[FaceDeathWithDignity end her new life on her own terms]]. And then after dying, she discovers that she has also developed a soul...]]
* Nanny's account of how discombobulated [[spoiler: Wen the Eternally Surprised]] was, when he sought her services as a midwife. ''No'' amount of enlightenment is going to permit an expectant new father to remain calm at a time like that, and it humanizes him wonderfully.

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* The dignified suicide of [[spoiler:Unity, the Auditor who became human, [[HumanityIsInfectious found that she loved it]], but also that it [[HumanityIsInsane made her incurably insane to the point that she just couldn't go on]] and chose to [[FaceDeathWithDignity end her new life on her own terms]]. And then after dying, she discovers that she has also developed a soul...]]
* Nanny's account of how discombobulated [[spoiler: Wen the Eternally Surprised]] was, when he sought her services as a midwife. ''No'' amount of enlightenment is going to permit an expectant new father to remain calm at a time like that, and it humanizes him wonderfully.
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* The dignified suicide of [[spoiler:Unity, the Auditor who became human, [[HumanityIsInfectious found that she loved it]], but also that it [[HumanityIsInsane made her incurably insane to the point that she just couldn't go on]] and chose to [[FaceDeathWithDignity end her new life on her own terms]]. And then after dying, she discovers that she has also developed a soul...]]

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* The dignified suicide of [[spoiler:Unity, the Auditor who became human, [[HumanityIsInfectious found that she loved it]], but also that it [[HumanityIsInsane made her incurably insane to the point that she just couldn't go on]] and chose to [[FaceDeathWithDignity end her new life on her own terms]]. And then after dying, she discovers that she has also developed a soul...]]]]
* Nanny's account of how discombobulated [[spoiler: Wen the Eternally Surprised]] was, when he sought her services as a midwife. ''No'' amount of enlightenment is going to permit an expectant new father to remain calm at a time like that, and it humanizes him wonderfully.
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* The imagery of Time herself walking through her glass palace, forever unable to interact with her son [[spoiler: (or, technically, sons, depending on whether or not one counts Lobsang and Jeremy as two separate people)]], is both desperately sad and profoundly haunting.

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* The imagery of Time herself walking through her glass palace, forever unable to interact with her son [[spoiler: (or, technically, sons, depending on whether or not one counts Lobsang and Jeremy as two separate people)]], is both desperately sad and profoundly haunting.haunting.
* The dignified suicide of [[spoiler:Unity, the Auditor who became human, [[HumanityIsInfectious found that she loved it]], but also that it [[HumanityIsInsane made her incurably insane to the point that she just couldn't go on]] and chose to [[FaceDeathWithDignity end her new life on her own terms]]. And then after dying, she discovers that she has also developed a soul...]]
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* The revisiting of the idea that Death is possibly the most lonely being in all existence, as realised by Susan in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', and underlined in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''... but with the addition that not only is Susan the only person he really has, but vice versa too: Susan's slowly and inexorably drifting out of normal mortal reality and she can't do anything to stop it.

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* The revisiting of the idea that Death is possibly the most lonely being in all existence, as realised by Susan in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', ''Literature/SoulMusic'', and underlined in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''...''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''... but with the addition that not only is Susan the only person he really has, but vice versa too: Susan's slowly and inexorably drifting out of normal mortal reality and she can't do anything to stop it.
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* The revisiting of the idea that Death is possibly the most lonely being in all existence, as realised by Susan in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', and underlined in ''Discworld/Hogfather''... but with the addition that not only is Susan the only person he really has, but vice versa too: Susan's slowly and inexorably drifting out of normal mortal reality and she can't do anything to stop it.

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* The revisiting of the idea that Death is possibly the most lonely being in all existence, as realised by Susan in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', and underlined in ''Discworld/Hogfather''...''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''... but with the addition that not only is Susan the only person he really has, but vice versa too: Susan's slowly and inexorably drifting out of normal mortal reality and she can't do anything to stop it.
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* The revisiting of the idea that Death is possibly the most lonely being in all existence, as realised by Susan in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'', and underlined in ''Discworld/Hogfather''... but with the addition that not only is Susan the only person he really has, but vice versa too: Susan's slowly and inexorably drifting out of normal mortal reality and she can't do anything to stop it.
* The imagery of Time herself walking through her glass palace, forever unable to interact with her son [[spoiler: (or, technically, sons, depending on whether or not one counts Lobsang and Jeremy as two separate people)]], is both desperately sad and profoundly haunting.

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