Quote Quoting Daniel Davis (view post)
Well, d'uh smart ass.

But a first person narrative is in the guise of being written by the character telling the story. If that character is dead, how is he typing or writing? It's a silly, amateurish trope that reeks of first year creative writing students.

The only way that convention makes any sense is if the first person narrative is framed by another character discovering the writing.
I'm writing a novel in the first person, but at the end, he doesn't die. So I guess that's my way of dodging that particular bullet.