^ meh, foolish people looking for justifications will always be there, pay them no heed.
@jens: personally i don't think it's weird. People die everyday, dying comes with life. What we should work at is not allaying death, rather how to eliminate as much unnecessary suffering as possible. For this particular case, worry not, because Japan is a resilient nation, especially against earthquakes and tsunamis (which they have so much experience and research on). They will bounce back.