Back to Carol and Lizzie for a minute.......
Another "option" for Carol might have been to kill Lizzie in such a way as
she returns as a walker......and thus is able to join her walker friends.....
To take it a step further......they could have allowed Mika to "play" with Lizzie - and let Mika kill Lizzie...and then the two of them could have gone off together as "sister walkers".
Instead it was "Look at the flowers, Lizzie'......then blamo!