Kieran McConville
ONE love, blood, life
Now there's a book I've been meaning to read for a while now.
And no kidding about unsatisfying endings. In particular I recall a couple of dystopias I've read recently that did a fantastic job of setting up their vision of the future and putting the parts in motion... and then cobbled together an ending in a couple of pages, as if they either had no idea how to end it, or abruptly hit a word limit and decided not to cut down on anything earlier.
But I suppose that's a slightly different thing to the whole "life isn't a traditional ending" thing. Either way, sure, it's good not to go for a traditional ending, but if you're going to shy away from that you need to realise that an ambiguous or open-ended conclusion is very different to having none at all or some rushed piece of shit.
I don't know if it is good not to go for a traditional ending, but assuming you're not, then yeah, just kind of petering out and wandering away isn't an option. It's like the literary equivalent of the end of Monty Python's Holy Grail, where the cops move in.