Because TOGOMs are the same as Lois deathfics.
That's right. Stories which tell of the death of a beloved fictional character are not always appreciated by the masses. Stories which describe the pain and loss like that which this old woman went through are often difficult to read, because death is not a friend but is an enemy. Not evryone likes this class of story, and not everyone wants to read this type of story. After all, the death rate for human beings is 100%, and why would we want to be reminded of that on a constant basis?
But it seems to me that the old woman grieved for the living as much as she did for the dead. Why, I wonder, did she feel pain for those who still lived? They weren't dead. They were alive. Maybe she was selfish and self-centered and only cared about her own feelings. Maybe she didn't give a flip about the feelings of the other people around her who loved those over whom she grieved but who still lived. Maybe she was so caught up in her own pain that she failed to understand that life goes on whether we want it to or not. Maybe she just didn't want to lose anyone else close to her.
And maybe she didn't understand that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
