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I don't find glee in his death. If you'd asked me this morning if he should die, I'd have said no, just that he is a horrible human being.
I am not sad or happy he has died, but I do think the world is improved some small amount by his not being in it. By his reckoning he is in a better place. By the reckoning of a lot of people he is now finding out how how wrong he was. By my reckoning he was wrong but will never know it.
I personally don't buy into the notion that strangers need speak only respectfully or not at all of a person when they've died. The passing of a public figure is a moment in time for considering the life of that person. Falwell's was seriously lacking in merit so far as I'm concerned and I'll say so.
Similarly, when Nixon died it did not change my opinion of him, nor when Carter dies will I suddenly wax nostalgic for what a great president he was. And if Chris Columbus dies tomorrow I'll spend the day talking about just what a horrible director of movies he was.
If, on net, your existence was a negative for the planet (in my opinion) then that is how my obitualizing of you will read.
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