To be very, very fair, Ted Kord and Booster Gold were good friends while Ted was alive. Why not celebrate that with a living Ted Kord, for Booster's sake? Happy Booster is the most fun Booster. It could be worth a try to start with, and if Ted needs to die, then let it be for a reason that we find meaningful for our storyline, here. While a handful of us know why Dead Ted is important, most don't. Personally, I stopped reading comics before he was killed off, so I remember living and awesome Ted Kord. I'm very modern/bronze age, pre-52 nonsense, personally. That's my era of DC, before all the dark and gritty.
Just saying, if you want to make Ted's death important, make him live, first, so everyone can get to know WHY his death is important.
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