You'd rather die in a twisting crunching heap of burning metal, than peacefully in your sleep in your old age?
I hate it when people say 'he died doing what he loved'. I guarantee that guy didn't love crashing. He didn't love what he was doing the few seconds or minutes before his life ended.
Its a damn shame his last experiences on earth were probably fighting and cursing his airplane.
Personally, I'll take the peaceful death in my old age.
<S> to his family.
No kidding. Being a race car driver, I hear this stupid crap all of the time. No, he did not die doing what he loved. He loved flying, he did not love crashing. I have yet to meet a race car driver or a pilot who would love to die in a crash, and destroy something he loves in the process. And I've met hundreds, maybe thousands of race car drivers, and maybe a hundred pilots. I even heard it last year, when one of my best friends was killed in a motorcycle wreck. At the visitation, the night before the funeral, some moron said, "well, at least he died doing what he loved, riding his motorcycle." And I turned around, looked at the idiot, and said, "you know, I knew Bubba for 30 years, and not once did I ever hear him say, 'I sure do love crashing my Harley into a car load of idiots." Few things in this world that people say piss me off more than "he died doing what he loved". Nothing could be further from the truth. Having been in two or three crashes that appeared at the time to be likely to kill me, I can't remember thinking, "I sure do love doing this, and if I die, well, I couldn't think of anything I'd love to do more".
