Editing Discworld (section)

==The Inevitable End==
Everything comes to an end, and this fact became apparent for even the Discworld series in 2007 when Terry Pratchett announced that he'd been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. 

Like the massive badass that he was, Pratchett took this fact in his stride becoming the forerunner of Alzheimer's advocacy and [[Skub|assisted suicide]] AND still managed to release books on a regular, consistent basis whilst suffering from a disease that causes most sufferers to spend the rest of their days babbling in a retirement home.

But, unfortunately, despite much protestations from fans and signs to prove he was doing very well despite this affliction, Pratchett died in 2015.

What makes this whole damn thing so sad is that, given his relationship both literary and philosophical with death, we know almost for a fact that he was probably completely fine with it. To add a bittersweet bow to the top of the sadness cake, he instructed his assistant to post the following to announce his passing:

:"AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. <br> Terry took Death's arm and followed him through the doors and onto the black desert under the endless night. <br> The End."

After his death the hard drive containing all of his unfinished work was, as per his explicit wishes, destroyed by a steamroller. The wish was granted on August 25th by Lord Jericho, a vintage John Fowler & Co steamroller at the Great Dorset Steam Fair and overseen by Rob Wilkins, manager of the Pratchett estate. The wry sense of humour behind this act was appreciated by many fans.

The copyrights to Discworld passed to Terry's daughter Rihanna after his death. An accomplished writer (and video game developer, see [[Overlord (Video Game Series)]]) herself, she immediately announced that nobody, not even her, would be continuing the Discworld series. It stands forever as Terry left it. Rihanna Pratchett has also been extremely cautious about multi-media adaptations, with the flow of adaptations notably slowing after Terry's death. A planned TV series centered around the City Watch, for example, fell into development hell after the author's passing, later emerging from BBC America as a mangled mess of Discworld elements and Fresh New Ideas that generally undermined the original characters and setting, upsetting fans and drawing few new viewers. Another attempt at new Discworld media with Sir Terry's estate more involved in creative control, an animated children's movie based on The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, released in 2022. It seems to have remained faithful to the book and has retained the same level of quality as the earlier live action adaptions, coming in at a solid 7/10 and giving us such amazing phrases on its posters such as "DAVID TENNANT is DANGEROUS BEANS." It has also garnered some negative reviews for being "too dark for kids," which means, as we all know from Hogfather, too dark for parents who aren't comfortable with their kids clamoring for blood.

[[Discworld|TL;DR <strike>RIP</strike> GNU Terry Pratchett. You will forever live on in the heart of fa/tg/uys and ca/tg/irls the world <s>round</s> flat.]]

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