My god, yes, for someone who had seemingly overcome so much to end up dying so young is just awful; I would guess that it's especially shattering when you can relate to his struggles so intimately.

And I've been siting here for like, half an hour trying to come up with a graceful way to say this, and it's just not coming: don't go thinking that his end is anything like related to your life or destiny or whatever, because it's NOT. Okay, please?

Related but less intense: I hope the whole cast is all right, too. It has to have been just like losing a family member for all of them.

Hopefully the boy will meet girls of his own age who smack him around for being a proto-dickhead, and peer pressure will do something positive in making him a better human being. We can hope, right?