I lose my family members all the time. From natural disasters, enemy assassins, actions in battle. But then I like to throw my generals into the thick of it. You either get a decent general or a dead one at the end of it, and why would I need bad generals?

Weirdest one happened pre-patch. From what I could tell my general was killed.. after one of my siege engines rolled over him? He was just running through a unit of advancing catapults.. and then he suddenly died. I didn't know wheter to laugh or cry. My uber general and leader of a glorious campaign.. run over by a siege engine.