User blog comment:Mexican215/Yes another ME3 ending blog..Why ME3 shouldn't be the end of Shepard/@comment-24174486-20130217004410/@comment-1440333-20130217015235

It was always intended as a Trilogy and announced as such before the first game even released. As Lily said do the research.

Also the whole theme of the game is the sacrifices you must make to defeat the Reapers. This becomes readily apparent in the first game where you have to sacrifice one of your squad at the expense of another. If anything that suggests that there will be more sacrifices to come, with the logical one being that Shepard will most likely be forced to sacrifice themself in order to defeat the Reapers. And Surprise! - that is exactly what happened.

Shepard's story is over, just as the developers said all along it would be. Shepard already died once, at the start of ME2. So why can people not accept that Shepard can die again?