This is a link to a very useful post. It explains many reasons exactly why Bojack dying would be a bad ending. Please read it thoroughly.

I disagree, I feel him dying just doesnt fit well we the themes of the show.

If he died, there would be no opportunity for him to turn himself around, nor any opportunity for him to reckon with all the wrongdoings he has done throughout his life. It would completely tear up the established moral of the show.

Good grief. Grow up, all of you. It was just a simple question. Literally never posted here and haven’t been on this sub long at all. Lord forbid I ask a question and expect reasonable responses. Some of these have been reasonable, some of you are douche bags.

They wanted to make him face his mistakes. Can’t have the redemption arc if the guy dies.

Forgive me if this has been done to death here

It has. Dw about it though.

personally always felt it was more poetically beautiful for Bojack to die

A big and recurring theme of the show is consequences and dealing with them. Bojack dying would’ve absolved him of any and all the consequences of his actions. Like, sure, he’s had a sad life and has done some bad shit which he regrets, but that doesn’t give him a pass to kill himself and not have to deal with the full fallout of those actions.

I disagree about it being poetic or beautiful. It also sends a wrongful message that suicide is a “get out of jail free” card. I really don’t think this is something that we should be preaching to our audiences.

I thought so to at first, but the more time passed and the more i watched the show, the more i came to love the ending as it is. Him dying would almost feel as a cliche

I feel like Bojack’s death would have been the easy ending. I find it far more interesting to see people who have to live with their past mistakes and continue on, despite having burned all bridges and blown up their lives.

Sounds like the lazy ending to me.

What so after all that he gets to just die and never own up to all his mistakes? No way, Jose

Fuck. Okay, someone reset the “X Days Since a ‘Durr, Bojack Should Have Died’ Post” sign!

While you’re at it, can you check on the “X Days Since a ‘Diane: Best Character or Worst Character?’ Post” sign?

i really thought there was a chance they fully killed him after watching the view from halfway down. it felt like bojack had learned he couldn’t escape his mistakes already, through the reporter and the interview, so i don’t think it felt necessary to keep him alive to “face his mistakes”.

the more likely option seems that they chose not to kill him for the sake of everyone else. it would be a lot harder to give everyone a happy ending if bojacks death overcast everything else.

it was important for use to get closure on these peoples relationship with bojack. pc got to be married, see bojack reach some sort of hapiness, and tell him she’s willing to help him but doesn’t want to be his agent. todd got to find his footing in life and build the life he wanted for himself, and bojack saw it happen. the biggest in my mind is diane. we needed that closure between them, even if it didn’t feel great, it was necessary. diane deserved to tell bojack off, to finally have found the version of her that makes her happiest, and to tell bojack that she can’t be friends with him anymore.

tldr: it’s a lot more impactful to see the ends of these characters stories having it be “moved on from bojack” not “mourning bojack” or even “happy he’s dead”, neither of which felt right for the ending.

I think I’m one of the few that actually would’ve been okay with either ending. People in the comments saying him dying would’ve been “lazy” writing, I disagree with as I fully expected Bojack to keep on living. I feel as if his death would’ve really thrown me for a loop. A real shocker ending. I do also think it kind of goes against the show’s “life’s a bitch then you keep on living” narrative though. I will say one thing, Bojack’s death would’ve provided me with closure. The ending of the show did not.

No

The ending we got was far superior to BoJack dying.

sometimes life sucks and we just have to keep living. it’s a major theme of the show.