Point is, Drich, you could simply have said "oh dear, I'm sorry to hear about your father" and let it drop. That's what normal, decent folk do. There was no need to use that very specific and personal information that Fidel was trusting enough to share with us as an opportunity to tell us that "every knee shall bow" when we're on our deathbeds.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
