To make something so good and so wonderful but then ultimately kill it and make someone feel really bad about it.
Or, a character in John Green's The Fault In Our Stars who had cancer and died young, also made a lot of metaphors about death.
Friend: I'm writing a story and I really like the character so far.
Me: Okay, well, don't Augustus Waters it.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.