For people who have read the books

I think that Carrie would have been able to survive longer with Cory. It was like she died the day he died.

Remember another catalyst for Carrie's suicide was finding out her fiance was going to be a clergyman. That, combined with Corrine's rejection was really what did it IMO. However I think that if she'd had Cory for support she might no have felt so hopeless.

I don't think Cory and Carrie every really developed separate identities. They were really just babies when they went into the attic. If they'd had a normal childhood they might have developed separate interests and made other friends. They might always have been close but that sense of combined identity might not exist. As it was they were seen as a unit: "the twins". When Cory died, Carrie essentially lost half of herself. I don't think she ever felt complete again.

If she'd not been rejected so brutally by Corinne, if things with Alex were slightly different, would she still have done it? I don't know. She might have lasted longer, but done it when some other catalyst presented itself.

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I think if Cory had lived, Carrie would have too. I don't think she would have ever intentionally left him.

I do think that even if Corrine hadn't rejected her that day on the street and she had married Alex that she would have always been waiting for something to push her over the edge so she could be with Cory again. She felt incomplete and lost without him. I don't think anything would have ever filled that void enough for her to live happily.

Yes, I don't think Carrie would have killed herself if Cory was around to care about her.

Cory and Carrie had a similar bond to that of Chris & Cathy because of the attic experience. Theirs is a more pure version though since it is without the incest angle.

Had Cory lived, the difficulties of growing up with her "disfigurement" would have been made more bearable with Cory around to sympathize and share the experience with her.

She wouldn't have felt so alone and always like a 2nd class citizen compared to others (esp Cathy). Perhaps Corrinne's rejection would not have wounded her as deeply. It would hurt, but she still had Cory around to let her know there was someone in the world who *truly* cared about her no matter what.

BTW, I thought it was tacky of Cathy to take Carrie along in Virginia when she carried out her revenge plans. Carrie wanted to stay with Paul, but Cathy had to take her just so she can have a personal housemaid and nanny. Annoying Cathy.

Cathy was as selfish and Vain as Corrine in so many ways. This is one example. Taking Carrie was more about her not staying with Paul, plus needing her to watch Jory while she carried out her Revenge.

Carrie says "Paul needs a Husband, if you won't have him, I WILL MARRY HIM." That was unacceptable to the Vain Ms Cathy. It was only one of the factors but nonetheless there.

Cory living would truly have saved Carrie from Many MANY things. Paul would not have sent her to that school, he would have allowed the twins to go to public school TOGETHER, so no Sissy Towers nightmare.

Cory would have been around to protect Carrie from Julian's disgusting sexual molestations, I doubt she'd have bothered if he had been there.

Somehow I see young CORY becoming religious had he lived, it's just something about his personality. Perhaps if that were so, she may have learned that God loves them, and when she met her true love, she might have not feared the whole minister thing.

OR they might have gone the Chris and Cathy route, this was also possible.

Either way, Yes, Carrie surely would have survived longer.