User blog comment:Cuddles Epic/DNR - Over-attached?/@comment-4536066-20130602214430

The only time it ever makes sense is when people stand to gain something from the death of a character.

Like, who remembers Dark Moon? A bunch of people got seriously annoyed when they felt like their characters had legitimately killed that guy (IC because he was threatening senseless violence), and he resurrected or phylacteried or whatever it was. Wouldn't have mattered OOC, except that if the character was finally dead and gone, they would stop having to deal with rofly war threats that disrupted their normal role-play.