/lit/ - Literature

I love tragedies.

A man in a small town falls in love with a woman with Spinocerebellar ataxia, a degenerative muscle disease that eventually takes away her ability to walk, see, and generally coordinate herself. He meets her in her early stages, and this takes place in a time when barely anybody knew what the disease was, and they both thought they could beat it.

The disease takes a toll on her and only gets worse. She becomes a prisoner in her own body and is barely able to speak.

He is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work in his profession as an artist overseas, but he refuses to abandon the love of his life and wants her to live out the rest of her days peacefully in her hometown.

He becomes her full-time caretaker, then she dies a long and excruciating death over the period of a couple years.

He's never able to find a career opportunity like that again, and lives on the fringe of poverty, forever spending rest of his days as a lonely, mediocre widower.

The end.

is this a good idea?