Funny guy for sure, RIP.  at the very least i'm sure we all respect his life, just maybe not his death.  and his life is the part that mattered anyways, right?
also, hopefully i won't get too much hate for this, but is it necessarily such a bad thing to look down upon the fact that he was driving while intoxicated (to some degree at least)?   I understand the respect issue, but if a death by drunk driving is viewed as a shameful death, maybe that will help deter it.  since he actually died, everybody looks past the drunk driving and hates on people who say 'well he was drunk driving, what a fucking stupid thing to do.'  i feel like that makes potential drunk drivers think if they die or get in a crash, the fact that they were driving drunk and endangering others' lives will be forgotten out of respect.  more emphasis needs to be put on the fact that drunk driving is a fucking shameful thing to do, no matter how great of a person you were, and whether you survived or not.  it's a pretty disgraceful way to go, because you didn't only die by putting your own life at risk (which is fine, we do it every time we ski), you were putting other lives at risk as well.   a lot of people say that he just wound up in the worst case scenario doing something a lot of people do, but if you and your passenger are the only people who died or were injured as a result of your drunk driving, then things could have been much worse.
like i said, RIP, and i definitely respect his life.  and having people respect one's life should be much more important than respecting one's death