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In Light, Diana actually says "you don't have to be happy or alive" not "you don't have to be happier alive". Shortly after she abandons them, she commits suicide, making it even more of a Downer Ending. If the line is "you don't have to be happier alive", Alice Ripley pronounces it very oddly in the OBC, suggesting she also believes this theory.

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  • In Light, Diana actually says "you don't have to be happy or alive" not "you don't have to be happier alive". Shortly after she abandons them, she commits suicide, making it even more of a Downer Ending. If the line is "you don't have to be happier alive", Alice Ripley pronounces it very oddly in the OBC, suggesting she also believes this theory.
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  • In Light, Diana actually says "you don't have to be happy or alive" not "you don't have to be happier alive". Shortly after she abandons them, she commits suicide, making it even more of a Downer Ending. If the line is "you don't have to be happier alive", Alice Ripley pronounces it very oddly in the OBC, suggesting she also believes this theory. * At the risk of being a killjoy, the line is actually "You don't have to be happy at all/To be happy you're alive," which can certainly sound like "happy or alive" if you have terrible diction like Ripley does. But even the mondegreen version of the lyric isn't all that suicidal in context (although it does contradict itself - you don't have to be happy to be happy?).
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