Martin has always been clear that he doesn't and won't write conveniently to appease an audience. Characters are never all evil nor all good. The good ones can die as easily as the bad ones. Just because you are a key character in the story does not mean you will survive, and not all storylines will come to a conclusion wrapped up with a bow.
As far as the divergences from his story goes, he has said the show and his books will align at key points but how they get to those moments will be different.
So I see the show and the books as being almost separate things. And just because a character dies on the show doesn't mean that they will die in the books (or vice versa). They will wrap up with the same result, but who is still standing we won't know until both have finished.
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