I would have preferred he died in his bed as an old man after getting to see his children grow up.
I am not sure he would have wanted to go the way you describe.
Funny, but in this ultra red county in an ultra red state,
beers are being toasted to a man who DIDN'T live to be a feeble old man, but to a man who lived more in one day that most folks do in a year.
He died too young, but he died doing what he loved.