Forever Knight
Eye See You
Like I said already in my example, if Gai was to die then Inoue could have written it in a way that was still poignant without going to this level of "shock value".
See below.
Why don't you answer what I, Shougo or matt asked: do you think him dying in front of his friends would be good for them? A happy occasion turned tragic because their friend keeled over in front of them?
Good for them? Are they 11?... The guy is ready to die... he knows he's going to die... the last thing he wants to see are his friends before he is gone forever and what you are thinking of is "Would it be good for them?".. are you kidding me?.
Maybe you don't have friends but if I had a friend who was ready to die and chose to come see me before death... I'd be honored by it. Wouldn't you?.