Ok so I have made a goal for myself and I will need your help...
Ok so I watched a music video, which were basically of touching moments between Piper and Prue, of Charmed. The song was Michelle Branch's "All I Wanted " If anyoe cares.
Anyways I was watching it and there was a reoccuring scene of when Piper gets stabbed or something, never saw the episode, anyways I only saw a clip, and I swear to god it was seriously sad, maybe it was the song, I don't know
Regardless my goal is to, in my book, make someone feel just as sad over one of the characeters deaths but I haven't the faintest how to do that in a book, any ideas?

~Thanks in advance

First, you have to build the character up a lot. Have him do some really sweet stuff, really heroic stuff, really cool stuff but have a soft heart- usually. You can also have him be like a Clint Eastwood type guy and then kill him in a heroic self-sacrafice-for-the-good-of-the-minor-character-or-my-girlfriend type way, but I think those are usually more challenging.
Second, you must accept the fact that you will never feel sad about it. It's like when you make a movie you always se the glitches in it (I'm a drama geek, sorry) or you draw a picture (and art) you always see all the problems and no one else does. You can't feel sad, or atleast as sad, because you're the one that created him, etc. and therefore he can't be as real to you. Now I've heard that J.K. Rowling felt sad when she killed off ****(incase anyone hasn't read it and wants to) in the last book, and that's good 'cause it means the character's real to you, but it's still not gonna make you as sad. Oh, or if you don't like HP, read Spy High... is it three or four? Meh. Read them all. But when they kill off **** it's really sad.
Third, you have to realize that, while these methods may work, they are not going to be exact because you're writing it and every author has a different style and does things differently. You may kill off the badguy, cry for an hour and then still have it be a tear-jerker for the audience, but it's not as likely.
Fourth, don't foreshadow it too much. Don't extend it too much. Let them die. You can put them in the hopsital or whatever if you really want to, but having them die saving someone or whatever is probably better unless you do it really well. Also, don't put too much descriptions. Like any action scene, you have to give up having some of the details in your mind be portrayed and instead have the action shown. You don't want "He drew the long bladed sword, the light glistening off it's blade, and charged at Jack. Jack swirved to the side, but it was too late, the tip plunged through his chest with a ripping noise, then pushed out the other side in a cloud of blood" you need "Jack dodged to avoid the sword, but it was too late and as death gripped him, he could slowly see [flashback, fade to black]".
Also, if you can, connect it later and don't bring the character back immidiately.
Like, in HP 5 again, after killing ***** Harry opens *****'s b-day gift to him and finds the communication mirrors and in depseration he tries to use his to talk to *****, and gets no response and has to accept that he's really dead. Tie it in. Make it sad. Don't overdo it.
Also, it may help if it's something where they can say "oh if I had showed up a minute later" or "if he had dodged the other way we would both be alive" or something. The only problem with that is that it developes another character more quicly than you may want to. It gives them angst and caution and rage and stuff.
I wouldn't swear that this will all work, but it's what I think. Hope I've been of some help.

Oh cool, that will totally help!!!!! I can see it forming in meh mind already I already know how it will happen, but damn... The poor girl won't die for many, many chapters... Oh well :-p Thanks Jake! Sorry to say you won't be reading of the death for a LONG time, oh and sorry Kye! I will be killing off your character, it's for the good of the main populace.

LOL I'm glad it helped, have fun writing! :D
Poor Kye.