Quick! The Door!

Everyone dies in this story.
There is no moment of 'almost death'. No (like I said) everyone dies in this story.
A character is not left with two arms less than he began with.
I am not lying when I say that everyone dies in this story.
There is no great hero who battles against a monster. The monster will easily kill him, and the word 'battle' would be overstating what took place.
This isn't Buck Rogers. Everyone dies in this story.
If a plane explodes, no daring parachute escapes will take place. This will be the day the parachutes are being cleaned.
Everyone does indeed die in this story.
However,
there will be a modest lead male who is slightly above average in this story.
He will come to know a nice (although eccentric) young woman whom he will later marry.
They will have a son who will grow up to be a handsome, struggling professional singer.
Later in his life, he will fall in love with an English teacher who resides in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
'Revolutionary' will be the word called to mind when people think of her.
She will befriend a pilot named Ted.

The modest lead male almost drives his car off a cliff, then dies of a heart attack.
The (although) eccentric young women has both of her arms amputated after a earthquake causes her house to fall on top of her; She dies shortly after the operation from blood loss.
The struggling professional singer, while high on LSD, thinks he sees a monster in the lake a mile from his house. On his way out to fight the LSD monster, he trips and breaks his neck on a boulder.
His English teacher wife and his revolutionary daughter, along with her pilot friend Ted, embark on a reflective journey to New Zealand. As the engines give way because of the storm, they all die because of the missing (but clean) parachutes of Ted's plane.

Everyone dies in this story.