Mannlicher, if you can't say anything nice about the kid, STFU.
Why?
The fact is that young people often feel immortal and the combination of bravado and inexperience leads them to over-estimate their capabilities, so they do dumb stuff and sometimes some of them don't survive to become older men. Three young men boating at high speed at 3:00 AM seems like an accident looking for a place to happen. The fact that Fernandez was a successful MLB pitcher with a lot of potential is sad, but the saddest aspect of his death might be that his fiance is pregnant with their child and the child will never know his/her father.
When I was 27, I was in an OH-58 crash and that near-death experience prompted me to changed the course of my life. I continue to view my survival as one of those "only by the grace of GOD" events.
