The retrospectives are just starting on the TeeVee here. love him or hate him, one thing is for certain, if he just got put into a coma, and recovered from it, he'd be set for life with the number of people that wanted to see him in concert before he died.
Not to rationalize away what he probably did, but you have to wonder how much his f'd up childhood contributed to the disgusting shell of a human being that kicked it today.