Okay, now that I have more time to write...
I saw this coming, and I couldn't really say anyone else didn't. He was in bad health, he had been in bad health and he was very old. It's natural that he would die. I'm glad that he can at least be at peace for now and not have to go through what he had been suffering the last few months.
He has done a lot for the church, and should be remembered for that I guess. Even if you're not someone of religion, you can at least accept that he did do a lot of things good, and had a lot of good will. After cancer, an assassination attempt and now this I suppose it was time for him to die. And I guess the next pope will come within a month or so. Meh...I always thought of him more as a spirital representitive then a leader.