Woohoo!

Absolutely! I love how GRRM creates these wonderful multidimensional characters, makes you love them, and then kills them off. Cruel perhaps, but it's far more gripping when characters get into trouble - they're doing a high-wire act without the safety net of some contrived resurrection.

Actually, if this is going to be the end for WoT - Sanderson can kill off ALL the characters :-P