Accident: Trappist Abbot Dead

Yes indeed, but at the same time, if he (and by extension the entire Trappist Order), was the strictly cloistered/contemplative Order it was 75+ years ago, this never would have happened. He would have been in his monastery in silence, wearing his white cowl ( the Trappists until Vatican II wore their white cowl with the wide sleeves almost all day in the monastery year round, unless at work when they just wore the white habit and black scapular). Never would they have worn layclothes, nor engaged in cycling jaunts. They would take hikes in the surrounding countryside in large groups, but never alone.
The Trappists have lost most of their famous silence and disipline, as well as their tradition for having magnificent choirs chanting Gregorian plainsong. The former/forced closed Mariawald Abbey in Germany attempted after Summorum Pontificum to restore both the Tridentine Latin Mass to their Abbey, and the world renowned Trappist silence and disiplines.....but the opposition by 3-4 aged monks at Mariawald who were against the younger monks and the abbot who wanted tradition, and the larger Trappist Order who were against them and resented them for trying to restore the traditions, made such a wonderful experiment impossible. Despite recieving more vocations inquiries in 5 year than they had in the last 35 years, and also recieving a steady flow of new novices (most of whom gave up and returned home), the abbey was closed. Unfortunatly, the worthless liberals in the Trappist Order won out.
Very sad, because the Trappists were once world famous as one of the strongest and strictest Orders in the Catholic Church. Before Vatican II, they had roughly 5,500 monks and a median age of 37-40, with some abbies having 250+ monks such as Gethsemani Abbey and St. Joseph Abbey in the USA).
Today, there are about 1,500 Trappists in 86 monasteries (down from 100 in 2013) with a median age of over 80+ !! Very sad.
Unless a Trappist monastery is founded according to tradition, independant of the parent Order and the Vatican...such as the 6-7 Benedicitine monasteries of monks around the world affiliated to the SSPX, the Trappist Order, like most other male and female Orders, communities and monasteries, have no hope of survival if they keep clinging to the Vatican II model. NONE.