There may be some element of feeling guilty because he was shadow banned here. It seems to be a common pattern that people who didn't know how to help when the person was alive feel some kind of responsibility for the death, like he might have lived if only we could have figured out how to engage him more effectively or something.

Individual outcomes are never entirely individual. There are always a great many factors involved and that makes it complicated to figure out who is responsible for what and how much.

I didn't really know him. But it's nice to see some of the remarks here. I sometimes am very angry when I see nice comments about a dead person who was excluded in life. But I don't have any idea how it could have been handled differently in this case.

Some things are simply tragic.

I'm not quite so sure. Michael Jackson, for example, isn't remembered today as a pedophile or a degenerate, even though everyone was quick to demean the man while he was alive. Maybe the same will be true for Terry Davis. Respect is often something that is given posthumously. People tend to forget and forgive when the negative is vastly outweighed by the positive.

He made and OS that was far beyond an average person. He also spouted hatefull messages constantly. It's a package deal

He needed a lot of help, but a great hacker has passed, and we should remember him for his work

Seconding this. He was a great programmer, and deserves to be remembered.

God decreed that 640x480 in ring 0, was enough.

In short, a tragedy should be upsetting, especially when at the heart of the tragedy was a bright man with a serious illness.