I was pretty upset when I heard. I was fortunate enough to have actually played 2nd Ed with Gary Gygax at a convention many many years ago. Afterwards I asked him to sign some of my dice, but dice are small and the signature didn't come out well. The dice then became somewhat unlucky, I don't know why; and for ages after my friends and I would refer to a bad dice roll as a 'Gary'. I still have them, won't ever sell 'em.
It just all seems very back-to-front really, it should be the players who die, not the Dungeon Master.
