[ATDrake]

Very sad to hear, but OTOH, he had a good life in which he made a lot of positive contributions to the world, and it ended while he was still in command of his mental faculties before they deteriorated too much (which was something he feared and thus campaigned for euthanasia rights), and he otherwise seemed to be in decent health.

So while it would have been nice if he'd lived long enough to see more effective treatments for Alzheimer's in his lifetime, this seems like it was a reasonably good way for him to go, all things considered.

Wish I'd gone and bought a few more of his newer books (or just added more aggressively to my slow acquisition of the Discworld in French translation, which are done excellently, BTW) while he was still alive to enjoy the infinitesimal royalties, but I do have a substantial stash of nearly-complete series purchases made over the past decade-and-a-half which I'll be dipping into for nostalgia re-reads.