http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2010/04/03/notre-dame-recruit-dies-florida-mishap/

"Witnesses and friends indicate he had become drunk and belligerent," Humphreys said. "He had leaned over the balcony rail, was shaking his finger at the people in the next room over. He fell over."

Another witness gave the following statement...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX3UqY8KZpU

I deal with enough true victims, so I don't have much sympathy for someone that brings about their own demise, especially while acting out as a drunken asshole in his dying moment.

I'm sure his parents feel terrible, but why the hell did they let their 17 yr old go down to Florida for a shit-faced party time? As far as thinking he deserved to die - no, but to steal a quote, "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Not agreeing with sending an unsupervised minor off on a drunken spring break trip is being a prude?

Never done any underage drinking, 1980?

Yeah, I did some underage drinking, but that never affected whether I did stupid things or acted like an asshole. As far as supervision 1) so f-ing what, because the parents should know damn well that there would be drinking 2) he either wasn't being supervised at the time, or the supervision was completely useless.

HelloMKGs, I live a pretty good life, including some drunken moments. Being drunk never made me an act like a jerk though, and it wouldn't be an excuse anyway. People like to blame a whole lot of bad shit they do on being drunk, and I don't buy it one f-ing bit. How about if this kid landed on somebody (a child maybe) and killed them too. Oh no, it was "just a kid making a mistake" and that's why someone else is dead too (right?). This is exactly like the thousands of drunk kids that get into deadly car wrecks. They think life is a big f-ing party and that they can do whatever the hell they like, and then when they kill themselves or somebody else there's a big f-ing pity party. At least this kid's stupid mistake didn't kill anyone else, the way so many deadly DWI accidents end up.

I don't expect most people to have the same perspective I do on personal conduct, and how it can dramatically affect others. Most other people haven't done CPR on dying bodies, pulled burning or bleeding kids out of the road, or sat with dead bodies for hours at the hospital trying to figure out why the other asshole caused a death.

I do expect people to see the difference between right and wrong even if they don't foresee the consequences. Sometimes when people do the wrong thing, bad things happen to them. I'm not celebrating his death, but how I or anyone else feels about it makes no difference anyway. However, I won't cry for anybody that dies while acting recklessly and in a way that could hurt somebody else. Incidents like this cause people to mourn and celebrate the kid's life without being critical enough of the actions that led to death. People feel bad for a while and then go right back to doing the same damn stupid things, but maybe next time the stupid kid kills somebody else. That's unacceptable, and other people should think so too.

One more thing - you say I should show compassion for this kid. I show compassion for people about every damn day while we're all alive, so I don't have to show compassion at their funeral because I caused their death. Maybe this kid should've had the same mindset.