This is not what I am saying. Please read my post more carefully. No one is suggesting Rich ignore an emergency to write more comic for the people. You are taking this to an extreme that is far beyond what the scope of what the question was.

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Yes, absolutely. Whether or not the readers get to see the ending should be the last thing on Rich's mind in an emergency.

The idea that authors "owe" their readers a finished work is the kind of toxic fandom that people have been speaking out against for years. You are not entitled to an author's work. You aren't entitled to anything. There is no moral or ethical obligation ever to make sure a work can be finished after you're gone, even if you're George R R Martin. If he's planning for, ugh, the end of his life, it should be the last thing on his mind. The only thing he should be considering is taking care of his family.

Also, this death watch has been going on for like ten years now. One time there was a question if he should rig up a button he can press to get help from the forums if he was incapacitated, completely ignoring the fact that he has a family. It's ghoulish and weird, and has encouraged more than a few boundary crossing individuals to act like their para social relationship with Rich is a lot more important than it is.