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I try to consider how I feel about this, and all I come back with is an emptiness, a follow feeling.

I'm not going to gloat, nor am I going to consider him even remotely a good person based on things he's said and done. I will never know him outside of his works and the things he's said and done, so I can only judge on those merits.

I guess all I can really do is shake my head and wonder what could have been had he not completely lost his way; his death by cancer was likely (not guaranteed, but there's always some hope if treated early and properly) preventable, but he made a choice.

I guess I'll just remember the early, funny, too-true-to-life material and try not to think too much about what happened after that.



--[not] remotely a good person? Depends on the metric I guess. Adams-- helped and cheeredd up thousands (millions?) of people, said racist stuff. --You (probably) or me --helped maybe one or two people, didn't say racist stuff.


I'm reminded of the dril quote about drunk driving, or the LoGH one about Frederica being made happy.




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