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Rue’s death is not lazy writing. She didn’t just OD, she was murdered. Lazy writing would be Nate’s death if you ask me. A lot of people have lives like Rue, and they even said it themselves, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. I always knew Rue was gonna die because her narrations were in past tense right from the start. And Rue always beat and cheat death for so long, her luck was bound to run out eventually. Addicts are in my family, some got clean, some died, and this was very realistic to me. Rue’s death was inevitable, but still shocking, at least to me, because the one time she actually needed pills was for her physical pain, rather than just her own personal high.