Red, you mentioned about the people there thinking he was dead. I bet a lot of them were clamouring over each other to see more clearly and no doubt taking their own pictures and mobile phone video�s.
It is a morbid fascination, not many people these days has actually seen someone die, and the mere thought of a life ending fills us with such horrific fascination that a few years ago would have not raised an eyebrow. Consider the rubber neckers who want to, yet dont want to see, the resultant carnage in a motorway pile up.
Unless the family have explicitly requested that the video not be shown on national TV, then why not air it? The commentators were probably trying to see how it could have happened in the first place. I think the family said that he died doing something he loved, so in some ways you are seeing him in his final glorious moments doing what he loved and did best.
Nonetheless, a sad end.