The way things seem to be going with Marvel and DC comics these days, it almost like the end of the world is coming, and they're trying to do all things they ever wanted to do to these characters before the final curtain falls...

Some legacy.

Once upon a time long, long ago, a company named the Marvel Comics Group made innovative quality comic books and were quite original.....

But lo many years later they began to mine past ideas and sell them as fresh and new, when in truth they were anything but....

I got back into comics a little over 10 years ago and because I'd gotten out in the early 90's (the Image-ification of Marvel and DC) I would still get excited about certain storylines involving the X-Men.They killed Jean again but I was okay with that because she was dead before and I never liked her resurrection due to my love of the Dark Phoenix Saga. I still liked her though. Though he was killed during my absence from reading comics, the resurrection of Colossus (my favorite) was a high point. Then piece by piece the creators of the X-titles starting killing off characters from the era that I believe "counts": Banshee, Corsair, Lilandra (not actually done in the X-titles), and Nightcrawler. They destroyed the characters of Professor X and Cyclops. They married off Storm to Black Panther in a publicity stunt. They decided that Wolverine wasn't a guy that wanted to control his beserker rage but that he was a more or less a cold, calculating murderer that Cyclops was totally fine giving assignments to. Don't even get me started on the stuff that they've done to Colossus since his resurrection.

My first true comic love was the X-Men. When I was out of comics, I still went to see the first movie on opening night. When I got back into comics, the first issues I bought were X-Men. I haven't completely walked away from Marvel because there are still a few titles that I enjoy but the X-Men are not a group of characters that I care about at all. Marvel has managed to suck the life out of any kind of interest that I may ever have about the X-Men. So this "death" is just a drawing on a piece of paper for me with words attached to it.  

Warren's girlfriend, Candy Southern, had been killed off a few years before I started that book, and that seemed to me an utterly pointless death. Candy, I felt, had not been nearly important enough to die. So I set about using her in XHY in order to give her some retroactive character weight -- to make her important enough to die.

So, the difference between then and now -- I wanted to make the character important enough that her death would matter, while current writers try to make a character "matter" by killing him/her.