Certainly you imagine there are no green eyes over at City, whose thrilling slave-death succession planning leaves only the transition from Silva to Silva to manage in central areas this season, a process that should be eased, if anything, by the projected three-month absence of Kevin De Bruyne due to training injury.
But there is a problem, as the Cromwellians found after Oliver's death: the succession.
Covering the April death and succession of Pope John Paul II was good for CNN's ratings; covering the foibles of Jennifer Wilbanks, the "runaway bride" from Georgia, in May, was not.
Since Patrick Moore's death a succession of astronomers and scientists have recalled how they were inspired by childhood encounters with the (literally) larger-than-life celestial explorer and xylophonist.
Virginia Harris Chairman Christian Science Church The founder of the Christian Science Church, Mary Baker Eddy, faced the issue of her death and succession over 100 years ago.
Sure, it is pure hell to have to endure, say, three family deaths in succession but there are silver linings - the rest of the family rallies around, you see that death is not an ending but an important part of the ever-going cycle, that Uncle Joe had a tremendous life and that cousin Francine needs consoling way more than you over the loss of her child.
Locals refer to this route as "the axis of death", with a succession of mass killings and burnt-out homes.
Following Mr Beltrán Leyva's death, a vicious succession struggle raged for months until two of the warring gangsters were arrested.
Although modern meteorology and politics have robbed the mysterious Modjadjis of the awe that once protected their tiny tribe, the Lobedu, her death created a succession crisis.
Joe Madison, aka 'The Black Eagle', the American talk show host, compared Martin's death to a succession of racist murders of black people from the civil rights era.
