Light aviation is not a zero risk proposition, even for the best prepared and most experienced. Sadly there is a lesson out there that none of us is untouchable and the less gifted of us can in no way ride our luck too hard. Sorry ending for a great aviator......
"High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air"
Fly smooth to your next life Mr Fossett 
Well said,
Some of the posters on this subject have, in my opinion, not been a credit to the flying fraternity.