Can any of you help me find a interview with Nomura that talked about who was going to die in FFVII's story?
It said that the death was between Cloud,barret,And Aerith.
and that they couldn't kill Cloud because he was the Hero,and that Barret was obvious,so they picked Aerith to Kill off.
Please Help me with this I need to know,thnx

I don't know if there's any other interviews around the topic of death, but there're two sources I have at hand:

1. FF7 Dismantled (FF7 Kaitai Shinsho- the Complete): this book was released at 1997, published by Famistu.Co. There's an interview with Nomura in this book, talking the decision of having Aerith as a tragic heroine. It's during the process of creating FF7, he said that "....in the original setting, Aerith is the only heroine, there's no Tifa. One night I called Kitase-san and said 'Let's kill Aerith and create Tifa." He said there's no dare make such decision, so it'd be rather something. Later on his statement caused fan's unsatisfied criticism, so he explained in another interview that "I didn't mean that, it's his direct decision."

2. FF7 10th Anniversary Ultimania, Interview (page 11):
-Chibica's version of translation-

The tragic heroine: ideas about Aerith’s death
Q: In the discussion of heroine of FF7, the topic inevitably mentioned is the Aerith’s tragedy happened in Forgotten City. This kind of event is very rare not only in FF series, but in all RPG games.

Kitase: In the past series of FF games, the death of an important character never happened. For example, like Graff * in FFV, the battle that he endeavors all his strength to defeat the opponent. In that situation, it seems like the character can frankly accept death because “he’s been working so hard”. It became a current that many cases could overcome this deadline so easy. Considering the method of story making, it seems practical enough. However, FF7 had made a step forward, trying to present the lost feeling. Since a single character’s death does not cause any lost feeling in such situation, I think it’d be better to develop that scene without any rising motivation.

Nojima: Kitase-san’s idea about lost feeling is consistent from the beginning.

Kitase: Besides, in many other works, there’re always various performances as the “presage” of death scene, in order to create a “prepared touching emotion” and using it as “the step to fight the even more evil side.” All those were trends that I tried to avoid. In reality, there’s no premonition to people’s death, so we always feel contented for those we don’t know they’ll be gone. It’s never simply the thought of fighting with the evil that makes you pour the utmost strength into the battle, but the attack of the great lost. I was in charge of the performance of that scene, and was very careful in presenting the reality.

Nomura: “Life”, as one of the main themes of FF7, is never depicted by the way of “touching death”, but is presented by real pain. I think the emotion to people’s sudden death should not be touching feelings, but great sorrow.

Nojima: From the side of scenario, FF7 is “the conversation with the life of the Planet”. Therefore, there should be someone taking the role who's “traveling aside”. Anyway, although what happens to Aerith’s body is unreasonable, the decision that the lost of one of the friends was probably destined in the beginning. But, the decision that Aerith to be this “someone” was not notified through official way, including me, the question of “how to do” troubled us when we made the decision.


*ED: Graff:--I don't know the exact name of this character...it's from FFV, though.

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I haven't read anything that talks about death which involves other characters...so maybe you can tell me the source then I'll help check it out. *has several booklets*
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Thats the thing I don't know where it was that I heard it at.
All I know is that Nomura and Kitase talked about how they came to kill Aerith.
And I remember seeing that they can't kill Cloud,because he was the main hero,and that Barret was to "obvious" ,so they killed Aerith.

I wish I could remember where I heard this from...
Thnx Though xD

Here's what I found: (you can thank our admin FF_G for these which come from her site: http://www.geocities.com/anime_art2003/Love_triangle.html (It comes from the section that disproves Cloti.)

FF7 Dismantled

"Actually, we had only Aerith at the beginning, and Tifa did not exist. But on a Sunday evening, I phoned the director Mr. Kitase and suggested, 'Let's kill Aerith and put in Tifa' (laughs). So, now we have two heroines, and we have an event where one of them dies."

Game Maestro

Interviewer: "FFVII had a story depicting death, what with the heroine being killed by [Cloud's] old foe, Sephiroth, wasn't it?"

Nomura: "Yeah. There are people who believe that I thought of the scenario where Aerith dies, and I've had some rather strong attacks from some (laughs). In a strategy guide interview the core part was left out, and only the joke bit ended up being published. I told them 'hey, that's not right', but it was too late. I suddenly became the villain of the FF staff (laughs)."

"To tell you the truth, FFVII's theme was 'life'. We had instructions from Mr. Sakaguchi saying, 'More than depicting life in the theme, you have to depict life and death. Anyhow you have to portray death.' With the death of a character, we wanted to have the player feel pain. So to do so, portraying the death of the heroine Aerith would be the most painful and important/heavy [on the feelings/emotions]. So, to portray death properly, it was decided that we would show Aerith's death."

Edge

"In the real world things are very different. You just need to look around you. Nobody wants to die that way. People die of disease and accident. Death comes suddenly and there is no notion of good or bad. It leaves, not a dramatic feeling but great emptiness. When you lose someone you loved very much you feel this big empty space and think, 'If I had known this was coming I would have done things differently.' These are the feelings I wanted to arouse in the players with Aerith's death relatively early in the game. Feelings of reality and not Hollywood."

Aerith, this must be what you are looking for:

Actually, his name is Galuf. You can read more about him here: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Galuf_Halm_Baldesion

thnx everyone xD