He was raised in Italy, what you gonna do? He spent a lot of time giving back to the community and charity. I find it difficult to criticize him. In a city so large and beset with so many issues he was a beacon of positiveness and a hero to many, a winner they could point to.

Of course he doesnt think that now.

I'm a general aviation pilot and don't choose to fly if I look out the window and it doesn't look like a good day to fly. I do this for recreational flights as well as a passenger on commercial flights. Keep in mind commercial pilots have to fly. That's their job. You as a passenger don't have to. I have to fly alot and that rule has worked pretty well for me so far.

Thankfully he does not know he does not exist.

Well, he already found out if there's the God he believed in exists or not.

Good for him. His religion or walk through this life is no more a joke to me than yours. We are all at a different point on this path called life. Would you make fun of or deride a child because of their lack of knowledge and experience? Besides, what is God?

I bet he doesn't think anything now.

He's dead, dead people can't think.

Did he just translate from whatever language The Qur'an is in? What a fool!

Delusion can be great from the point of view of the the ignorant and uncurious.

Wow, some ugly comments in here.
Just wow.

I think he was one of waaaaaayyyy too many humans to grace this planet. As humans go he was more talented than many and, generally speaking, rather nice but it's better when humans go.

God may be great, but which one to chose? There are so many, particularly those one true and only ones!

Leaving aside the relative merits and demerits of a man who apologized for a wrongdoing committed when he was 24 yrs old, and seemed by all accounts to have turned his life around to an overwhelming positive, I am amused about several aspects about reactions to the tragedy. At work today, I heard agreement to the comment, from a man of about 50 yrs of age no less, of how it takes you by surprise when lives that still have so much longer to live are suddenly ended. Though I can relate the sentiment, I was thinking to myself, "Shit, as an atheist, I think about that possibility nearly everyday, knowing that there is no 2nd act". Then there was the reaction of one of the mourners which was broadcast, describing how when he heard the news, he said "No. God no!". Similarly, I haven't heard any of the many mourners, though I'm sure there are some and will be more, who talk of those who passed away, going to a "better place", and certainly none seem to be happy about it.

I would mock religion with a rather different subject. After all, it's not the end of every believer just the same?

The good die younger.