The following chapter examines how fan fiction provides a powerful resistance to the dominant discourses around contemporary anxieties related to death and the afterlife, centring on the BBC adaptation Sherlock (2010–2017). The chapter interrogates how the antagonist Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott) is constructed as a symbolic signpost to guide audiences through the show’s exploration of death anxieties and how discourses of empathy are further cultivated across digital platforms. In its analysis, this chapter highlights the ways in which Moriarty encourages viewers to engage with empathic speculation about past and present and nonexistence and existence.