Plain and simple. She was sick of cancer and she notified them a while back that she had a certain amount of time to live. Well the writers and producers had to eventually write her death in. No conspiracy here. A lot of people die of puenomia.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 19730564 If that was the case, they certainly wouldn't have anounced the upcoming death of a character as spectacular revelation to the press.
You may have lost your empathy to understand it, but the studio decision makers...well, they would intellectually understand that the public wouldn't like that.
Besides...certain ammount to live wouldn't mean that she dies during the next season. Some people being told that they would have 1month left to live, lived for another 5 years.
Now, if it is indeed Edna that dies it's obvious why. They teach the military that christians are the enemy.
It's a psy-op that would fit into this framework of anti-christians propaganda. If they kill edna, Christian Ned Flanders would lose another wife.
And maybe he loses faith and meets Dawkins at Moe's and converts to atheism.
Anyway...it teaches being christan brings misery.
