It's always tough on everybody, even when the connection is only peripheral. In college there was a drunken guy in my dorm that fell out a fifth floor window and died, and on my ship there was a chief that committed suicide with his service pistol, and a couple other such things.
There's just nothing about any such thing that can be said to take the sting out of it. It doesn't make sense, and it never will.
Mmm, not at all. And at this time of year, I can't help thinking how hard it must be on his family.
Oh well. It's a shame, and that's that.