Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.