Random Super Heroes

"It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941. Over the years, some 210 million copies of Captain America comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in 75 countries."

I don't understand why things like this have to happen, to me the great thing about the super hero world is that since it's an imaginary world those characters within it can potential live forever. I know there are those out there that say comic books can closely relate to the real world, but I say if that was true where are all the real costume wearing heroes running around. There are rumors out there of a "resurrection", but if the writers are going to go through all the trouble to set up Cap. being killed only to later being him back, what's the point. If he was able to survive being frozen in a block of ice back in the 40's and then being discovered by the Avengers as the block began to melt, his ultimate end should have been a little more "heroic" then being a snipers target.
One brighter piece of news about Captain America is that "even if Captain America turns out to have met his end in print, he may not disappear entirely: Marvel is developing a Captain America movie." I am sure that this new movie will be a whole lot better that the old school Capitan America movie.