I can accept that the photograph and the subsequent media attention may have caused the man stress. And perhaps some of that elevated stress may have contributed to his death, much, much after the fact.
But you don't think suggestions that the public is culpable or that the photographer should be held criminally responsible (as has been suggested nfitz) are over the top?
Besides which, I am not just saying that the whole affair is excusable. At the time, and now, I continue to assert that the man should have been on sick leave. If he was so ill that he could not stay awake on the job, then why was he at work? If a TTC customer has suffered because he was asleep, I doubt we'd be discussing the issue the same way. I hold management responsible in at least some measure for what happened.