The Walking Dead is Terminal or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Killing Characters

This will contain spoilers both of characters who have died or who are still alive, which in a show full of character death is a spoiler in and of itself.

First off, the death of a character is not about that character but about how that death affects others. Whether it motivates them to action, motivates them towards nihilistic inaction, or changes their world view, a character's death has to mean something.