World's Worst in Videogames, or A Kind Gesture

A story that has been going around since it first appeared on Digg (look here as well: http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/03/extensive-world-of-warcraft-play-desensitizes-humans/), a player put up a small obituary in the World of Warcraft forums. The first response: "did he drop any good loot?"

The likely reason for this post is that the poster misinterpreted the obit. as a one for an alternate character, not a real person.
On one hand, Joystiq comments that this is terrible comment. Is it really all that appropriate to joke about somebody dying?
But then there is the argument on if this comment is not only appropriate, but a kind gesture to a WOW player. Here's what Frodo, Weekly Geek podcast host, said in the Joystiq article:
"The guy spent a ridiculous amount of time on WoW, he probably would have LOVED that response. I know I would have. If I were dead."
Looking at it that way, the post becomes a good comment. While we all don't like to speak ill of the dead (well, except of the eternally infamous, but that is another story), but we also want friends and loved ones to joke around and have the least amount of sadness when we die.
Admitingly, I wouldn't mind a comment like that should I die tomorrow. Then again, I don't plan on that happening anytime soon, so don't test that last comment.