A death is always sad, unless the person was terminally ill and alone or the family had to struggle to care for him/her. When an old person dies, the sorrow has to be less because death is the one sure happening in life and when it is time to die it is much better to die, more so for the old person.
The sadness is greater when a person from a foreign land makes his home here and gives his all to religion and then dies. When the death looks like murder, or even if it is proved to be suicide, the sadness is further deepened. This is how it is with the recent death of