That really sucks. Life eats ass like that sometimes. The people that deserve to fucking die are up and running around, while the truly good people get shafted by the world. The fact is, it's not anything that the kid can't work through. It's certainly unfair, and it's definitely awful, but it's not crippling. It will only make him more determined in the end.

I think the world needs to take a hint from the ever-wise Carl Malone:

"Die-Beeties is such a negative name. They shoudln't call it Die-Beeties. They should call it Live-Beeties."