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Spoilers for My Sister’s Keeper, book and movie, if that matters to you. 

The plot of the book and the film “My Sister’s Keeper” is about a girl who was conceived by her mother specifically to save the life of her sister who developed cancer as a toddler. When the book starts, the sister has developed renal failure and needs a kidney: donating a kidney is a very serious matter with serious consequences and the mother is, naturally, pressuring the girl to donate it because she’s the only one who can and it’s her duty. There’s no guarantee that the kidney donation will actually help: it’s very likely that the sister would die anyway. There have been multiple other times in her life where she’s basically felt like she had no choice in submitting to various painful and invasive medical procedures in order to donate things like bone marrow. She, with her sister’s blessing (that’s a twist) is suing for medical emancipation from her manipulative and narcissistic mother. 

She wins.

At the end, Anna, the girl, seems to have independently made the choice to donate the kidney anyway, but then the choice is taken out of her hands entirely because as soon as the case is over she gets hit by a car and is rendered brain dead. The person who got guardianship over her really has no choice but to pull the plug and have her organs harvested for her sister Kate’s sake, and whoever else in the hospital needs them I suppose. 

The sister lives. The pyromaniac brother who had a suplot becomes a functioning member of society, the father is sad, the mother continues to be an awful person. (She’s the origin of the line “what do you call a parent who’s lost a child?”.)

(The movie ends differently, but I’m not talking about the movie.) 

I feel like if the ending of ff7 involves all the protagonists and the entire human race dying, that that’s the equivalent of having a drunk driver turn the “I have the right to bodily autonomy” plot into a shoot the shaggy dog story.

One of the questions the game asks is, is it right to kill hundreds of innocent bystanders in your crusade to destroy an unquestionably evil institution?

Holy is the drunk driver and the human race is Anna Fitzgerald’s bodily autonomy.

I maintain my interpretation that the ending is perfectly compatible with humanity surviving and just leaving Midgar.