Yes they did give red a bad image but I think purple is much stronger especially in the western world because of its association with Roman and Anglo-saxon royalty, particularly with the Catholic church back when they tried to rule the world.

Eh, this was a few years ago, he got over it. It is the way you deal with freak sudden deaths like that, you either fall apart or eventually you just accept it and get through it. He did not go out in a storm though, that was the thing. It was a pretty fair day weather wise, there was just a lot of cloud cover, I don't even remember it raining. Just wrong place at the wrong time which is usually how such things happen.