I'd Have Kept Ultimate Beast Alive

I understand the concept of killing off a character to

A. Let the readers know there is some danger involved here

and

B. Let the readers know that being alive in the regular continuity will not protect you in the Ultimate line

but Beast's death in Ultimate X-Men was just too lackluster, too much of an afterthought, and also, Beast had such an impact upon the X-Men stories to that point that I think his death really took a lot out of the book - stuff that I do not think has been replaced since his death.