You hear that statement often. A guy is a pilot and his plane goes down and he dies and folks say, well he died doing what he enjoys doing. Or maybe he is a skydiver or scuba diver or does under cover police work. Do people really think when he got into that plane for that fateful flight he thought, gee, if I die today that's OK. Do you think folks who engage in risky pastimes or jobs really think about that?

Maybe we say that so the rest of the world finds it easy to deal with a death under those circumstances. Maybe then it doesn't seem like such a tragedy.

What do you think?