recent deaths in the climbing world

The climbing world has lost three of its most iconic people recently.
49 year old Craig Luebben died on a North Cascades test piece,the Torrent-Forbidden Traverse when a car sized block of ice calved from the glacier causing a leader fall and hitting him with ice.
Craig was prolific climber, guide, teacher, and the inventor of the BigBro expanding tube chock.
John Bachar, 52, died will soloing near Mammoth Mountain. John was the epitome of the spirit of rock climbing, oftened maligned for his free soloing he was unquestioonably the greatest climber of our generation.
Riccardo Cassin, 100, continued his climbing adventues well into his 80s.
In the late 1940s Riccardo designed them modern ice axe as we know it.
I doubt we modern day warriors can imagine leading the climbing world of the Alps and Himal of the 1930s or free soloing 5.11 in Yosemite when that grade did not exist, or teaching thousands of people to climb and having the time and energy of literally hundreds of first ascents.
Heros, gravity, and old age.