Just had to dispatch my favorite all black bantam chicken

Why is it always my favorites? I had a small bantam grey chicken that recently passed named Greygory, a barred rock hen named peep state about a year ago they got killed by a rooster, and now an all black bantam Ayam Cemani hen (the only one I had) that I had to put down because it had Merricks disease today. All of them were my favorite of the flock. Is it like this for other people too? I know it’s a part of life with chickens, but why can’t it be the ones that are jerks? Haha not that I would want to put them down either, but it would make it easier!