This article contains spoilers for the series finale ofSuperman & Lois.

What are the auspices of a life well-lived?

Its hope, joy, family, and good all these things that he is.

Tyler Hoechlin as Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane

Were all mortal, and maybe theres a beauty to our mortality that even Superman faces.

So we thought it was kind of a neat thing.

It was something that we were excited about, and so we followed that muse.

We see Lois and Clark die as heroes, but not in the traditional sense.

They dont die on some battlefield somewhere while saving the world from a threat bigger than themselves.

And the important thing is that he and Lois do bring about long-lasting change this way.