jonmf76 , who are you? You keep mentioning "the old days" as if you were one of the founding members or something. You should back up your chest-thumping with some kind of credibility, before you pontificate to us young whippersnappers about how climbing should be, and about the good old days when everybody did everything right.
I don't remember anybody thinking it is glorious to die, or that taking obscene risks was cool. Danno got a lot of crap, for example.
The climbing world you live in seems way different than the climbing world I live in. Except that in your world, mistakes apparently never happen to the prepared, and badluck never strikes the undeserving. It must be nice over there.