I don't know if it's so much them dying as it is that there could be a stain on their rich family tapestry. "Oh, to think that our descendants, the 7th generation McWilliams' will have to spend their formative years working *gasp* part-time jobs!? To think that MY little Ellie will have to go down in history as the first McWilliams that had to perform menial labor. Oh, Lord have mercy! I need another daiquiri."