Would it be 'edgy' or 'innovative' if the main character dies and the story goes on?

[agentkirb]

Also... if this is a big issue juggling it all together and having it make sense. It would be easy enough to do the whole thing in third person. I've read a few crime suspense books where they switch between different perspectives throughout the book. Actually the book "The DaVinci Code" (the one that was turned into a movie some years ago) does this, switching from the main character to different bad guys from chapter to chapter. It's all done in third person and no one is confused because usually the first paragraph of the new perspective tells you who's PoV it's from. Your first line could start "Rob was looking at the scene from his car." and the reader immediately knows that this part of the story is done from the PoV of Rob. Doing the same thing in first person would be very difficult because the same context clues can't be naturally written in.

[madhoca]

I feel that people are confusing Main Character, Point of View, and Narrator here.

-A main character can be dead at the start of the book, or die any time. However, the plot continues to revolve around them. That is why they are the/a MC.
-There can be more than one POV in a novel, or even in a chapter. The POV may or may not be a MC.
-The narrator does not have to be an MC, but has (obviously) to be witness to most of the events. There can be more than one narrator in a novel, e.g. a crime novel where toward the end, there is a chapter with each witness giving their story. There can also be a mixture of a POV character and a narrator, e.g. someone finds letters in an attic. The novel combines the POV story and extracts of the letters...

In other words, there are many different approaches, but, certainly for a novice writer, it is wiser to stick with 1-2 POV, and if a narrator is needed, one is usually best. If you switch narrator, you had better have a decent reason. The most important MC should have a presence of some sort throughout the work.

Of course, this is my personal opinion, based on my own writing struggles over the years, and my observation of works that have been successful (and I don't just mean financially successful). And there are always exceptions, I am making a generalisation.

[Question]

Are you telling the story from first person? I've seen multiple examples of this done with third person narrative, where the main character dies and a side character take over as main character. Though this could be interesting if it's in first person, not quite sure how you could do it(I guess it would have to be in present tense).