Ah, thank you. One of the great attributes of "Woods" is that very plot point, illustrating the random, capricious nature of death. "Sometimes people leave you..." The show is a hellluva story, even epic, but also an intimate meditation on loss. Its second act resonates so powerfully because it sees fairy tales as the moral and spiritual guides they were intended to be. The death of this wonderfully complex woman is indeed a reason the ending is so beautiful: survivors ... survive.
