Won't someone think of the children???<p>I have yet to meet anyone who started a company and is not a little crazy, and a little less risk-averse than most.<p>Where do you draw the line for acceptable behavior? Is flying a plane OK? Riding a motorcycle? Skydiving? Having an extra helping of dessert?<p>Hell, starting a company is a risk and takes a toll on a family.<p>Whenever you read a tragic story like this, you try to think of all the reasons it couldn't happen to you.<p>He spun the dice, maybe a little harder than most, and he lost. You could draw an unlucky card tomorrow driving in your car, or get cancer from your cell phone.<p>If you don't want to spin the dice that hard, you don't have to, I know I wouldn't. Some people have the need to go to the limit. They shouldn't put others at risk. But if he was a CEO and reasonably prudent, the family is, I hope, well-provided for. If he loved them, and he did that and died doing something he loved, bad break and a life well lived.