Death
Sunset
Sunset noun - The time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness.
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- Death at sunrise stresses the benefits of a Heroic Sacrifice; death at sunset is generally Because Destiny Says So, and will be sad even if they deserve it.
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So going out to some abandoned alley after sunset is tempting fate for a truly horrible death.
Source: Darkness Equals Death - The book points out that unlike the ballads told of this story, the fight was not at sunset, and rains did not follow the hero's death: instead, it was a miserable, hot, muggy cloudless day in late summer, at two in the afternoon.
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