Talk:Aang/@comment-5470502-20120918125312/@comment-5480397-20120918125610

Not much the Avatar State could have done to stop him from dying. The same could also have been said for Roku, who actually died during a volcano. Maybe it's a subconscious act. If the person knows full well there's nothing that can be done, avatar state or no avatar state, then the mechanism isn't triggered.