You must be one of those glass half full type of guys. ;)
Anyway, I don't think it diminishes the prose. I just think events give it a terrible irony in that it celebrates what gives life meaning and yet the man speaking it went to a dark place where he lost sight of that meaning. Still, maybe...
At first I was shocked when I heard the news. Then the usual negative feelings start to surface after hearing one of these people do something like this. Still, he must have been extremely unhappy to go to the length he did. A huge loss of a funny guy and talented actor, both voice and...