Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-39.42.71.48-20140706212805/@comment-6052796-20140707114830

Bear in mind that Yukito is a fan of Stephen King who just so happens to be a friend and collaborator of Romero. So it's no surprise if any Romero references slip in along with King and Lovecraft. For example, rather than treat death like a supernatural being, they treat it like a force of nature. Romero treats the zombies the same way,  switch out zombies with a natural disaster and the situation remains the same. However the examples you mentioned weren't calm or thinking straight when they died. The pressure of trying to make Kouichi take the hint that he should be ignoring Mei was pretty much getting to Yukari. She freaked out on him for mentioning her name. While at the same time not telling him in fear of dying as a result. Top that off with just recently getting the news of her mother dying and then seeing Mei interacting with Kouichi caused her normally level head to explode into a panic. If she survived her stair tumble there was no chance of her being sane after all that.

Junta suffered an aneurysm prior to the boat hitting him. He had hit his head while he was on his way to meet Izumi, but didn't get to the hospital to see if it did furhter damage. Sometimes when an aneurysm is waiting to happen, you can't really think straight. He was already dead before the boat got him.