Talk:Amon/@comment-69.204.10.46-20120612181624/@comment-69.204.10.46-20120612194305

One method people use to escape from attention, duties, and to start a new life is to fake their death. Being as famous as he was, the only way for Aang to hide from the world is for him to die, and a new Avatar to be born. But, if we're going by my theory, his desire to fade away is because he feels he still has much to do with his life; and as thus, needed to be disappear as his identy of "Aang."

Simply put; an Avatar can't "fake" their own death, because people would know.