0 someone who provides a service or buys and sells products for an agent (= person who is paid to buy or sell products or provide a service for someone, but who is not a regular employee):
Rather, each subagent knows her own ordinal (and perhaps cardinal) preferences as regards the outcomes and then acts to maximize satisfaction of her preferences.
But if the subagent's authority is derived directly from the principal, it is not affected by the agent's death.