A tad sadistic...

[Sofox]

I really liked her explanation for it.

For me, one of the things I try to always remember when telling a story is that every character should be an individual.  It's something I remind myself in real life when I drive down the street. Every person in every car? They have years of life behind them and a whole building block upon which has made them that very person who is driving that car.  As such, I don't really believe in making characters who's purpose it is to die.   Instead, I simply try to make characters who are characters...and it just happens to be their time.

Yeah, I do that a bit myself.
Have you ever done it while taking off from a plane? Looking at all those tiny dots of cars zipping about, wondering where they're coming from, going to, the whole secret life they contain?
Gets a bit mind boggling.