I agree with you, they should at least say that he is in the hospital in a coma, as if that is less grim then him being dead, or something like that so when he is seen around, people wont be shocked thinking he has come back from the dead. But, on the other side of that, the following days after that on major news stations, like fox news and i think i saw something on MSNBC about it, as well as local new stations said that it was a stunt