Very good point Firefly boy. Media will probably bring up the new "65 rule". Well, here's my very modest contribution to the topic, based on 15 years of research on the subject in my previous career. Sudden death affects 350.000 to 400.000 americans every year; known etiologies are cardiac problems, as well as many others. Here is the bottom line: there is no statistically significant difference between the following age groups: 45-55 and 55-65. So the media are going to tell us that pilots should retire at 45
Of course, we have seen recently a lot of self-proclamed media experts after AF 447 crash and unfortunately it is likely that we are going to see the same idiots feeding the general public with stupid and medically unfounded statements related to the tragic loss of this CAL Captain.