User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-4950455-20120410063303/@comment-3444770-20120410083541

Of course, they are entitled to wanting that ending, but would it be the best ending? I mean, they put Shepard through all sorts of shit and the nine levels of hell, they would just have him living. Too much bad shit has happened to him in order to warrant his survival. Someone who goes through all that is bound to die, it would seem "wrong" if they didn't.

Take Walking Dead as an example, in an interview, the writer said Rick would have to die eventually as too much bad stuff has happened. If he lived, it would be too unrealistic (within reason, it is about zombies after all).