The more I dwell on this the more important I find this development. I think the reason why this is such a sorrowful loss is because this man was an overwhelming force of creation. He was creating something beautiful and sharing it with the world. Losing that force for putting good into the world is more devastating than all the other mayhem going on in the world. Beautiful and compelling art is such a precious and rare thing, so to lose someone who brought so much of it into the world is a genuine tragedy. Such art makes this world a better place and we are all worse off for losing it.