It Just Lies There so Let it Happen

The Buffy episode "The Body" did not impress me at all. While I respect whatever opinions my colleagues may have on this episode, I on the other hand felt completely disassociated with it. Buffy's mom dies. I understand that, and respect whatever effect that has on other viewers. However in a show that emphasizes the supernatural I felt it was counter productive to have what happened to Joyce happen. People do die everyday and it is an unescapable facet of human life, but I believe that it is the manner of how death takes its toll on an individual matters. For example if Buffy's mom was murdered or drained of life by a vampire it still would have had the same devastating effect on Buffy and company. Murder is another aspect of how people die, and in some cases it demonstrates a more devastating result on the individuals who were close to the lost individual. While I do acknowledge that this was meant to be an emotional episode I also feel that if there were a different factor to the death of Buffy's mom (i.e. killed or terrible accident aside from the aneurism) the episode still would have taken the same route it did.