Is Mise & Rhostry, when you say if he had done this or that he would still be here, so would the millions of other people in the world who have died young,if they had done this or that at the time, it is an accident, it happened, so be it.
All most readers of daily papers want is for the media to stop writing about Phillip Hughes. I have never met him, never heard of him before his death, therefore his death means no more to me than any other person in the daily death list, so media get over it.

Ojnab,

I think that you miss the point, properly trained from an early age, as Rhrosty said, then there would have been no accident, just heavy contact or a glancing hit on the helmet where it offers maximum protection.

Is Mise, if he had been properly trained it may not have happened, when I play golf ones own instinct tells you to not stand in front of the person hitting off, I have not been trained, crossing a road our instincts & training tells us not to walk in front of a car, but people do walk in front of cars and get killed, therefore it becomes an accident.
All things in life are timed to happen regardless of any protective gear being worn or no protective gear being worn, we all tend to say "if only" it would not have happened, but unfortunately in life it is not that easy, we have no say in our ending. Many young people killed I have known in my life, that saying of "if only" things would have been far different as to what happened

Ojnab,

"....All things in life are timed to happen regardless of any protective gear being worn or no protective gear being worn,...."

Predestination, surely not?