I felt sad hearing of his death. I think you should feel sad if anyone you know of passes away.
But I can't help but wonder if there is a reason for his death untold in the press? I just think it's strange how an athlete can die from a cardiac issue. I would expect such incidents for obese/unhealthy/old people, not a professional athlete? Are players on drugs or enhancing products these days?
I know from the elders here that when a young man dies it is always a tragedy, regardless who he was. If he was a bad man - he had a chance to turn it around or change his life, since he had time. It could be that someone is hiding something - performance drugs, etc... Still a tragedy, if only for the child.
My best friend just burried a boy he knew since youth. He was living in the flat above him had epilepsy his entire life and died yesterday in the toilet. Amusing as it is - his parents were AT home, couldn't break the door (cause he was blocking it) and my friend had to do it. By the time they went in - the boy(if I can call a 30 year old a boy) was clinically brain dead. Now people may talk mathematics, statistics and bunch of other arithmetical BS to convince us its expected and logical.
Shouldn't close the door of the WC and etc....
But it is another tragedy. Surely, it is not tragic for ME and certainly for most of YOU, but its a tragedy for every decent human. Only a sociopath will think otherwise.