Fourteen characters who should have lived

At The Barnes & Noble Book Blog Nicole Hill tagged 14 poor fictional "souls, taken too soon, who should have lived, through whatever deus ex machina necessary," including [SPOILER ALERT]:
Achilles and Patroclus

You might be saying, “Achilles was cool, sure, but I do not remember ever mustering the slightest whiff of sentiment for Patroclus in The Iliad. In point of fact, I barely remember The