Well, we had heard a rumor that he had died, so yes that was an improvement. Being only a cousin, we don't have the immediate information on his condition so we were really freaked out for a while. Add to that, that the family who have been attacking us (see the thread in the men's channel) decided to quit the church and attack my wife at the same time (all during a snow storm that dropped a foot of snow) yesterday was a very bad day.
We are still getting rumors that he is brain dead (whatever they mean by that) but they don't put pacemakers in patients who have been declared brain referenced dead and the media is reporting that he is being kept sedated, another thing that you don't need when you're dead.