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The unknown child next door who suddenly became so familiar to us, tragically and forever left us. We were simply left with some question marks, thoughts, perhaps even guilt, which we "hope" will soon fade as our attention is distracted by the bleeding Greek state (it is bleeding just like the unfortunate young man) and the negotiations with our cruel creditors who are cancerous.
Within this tragic reality, there is not much room to mourn a sympathetic and weak character who could not withstand the pressures of everyday life. 
We continue our struggle, unyielding and full of pride, for a modern consumerist, counterproductive, backward, anti-educational and above all anti-Axial Greece. An uneducated Greece that sends its children to unemployment, abroad and even to death. But Greece is not impersonal, it is all of us who whistle indifferently and abruptly close our eyes, our ears and our doors when the case (we think) does not concern us (i.e. does not create any inconvenience or cost for us).
Greece is all of us, the genuine, proud, unenslaved and pure-blooded "Greeks" who admonish the younger generation with our negative example, with our constant violation of the law and with the positioning of our selfish "me" over the profoundly humanistic, Christian and Hellenistic "we".
Vangelis ultimately did not leave us because he was weak, he left us because we are all weak and we could not (or did not want to) get comfortable and help him. Now it is too late for Vangelis. Tomorrow it will be someone else's turn. That is life, maybe Darwin was right, the weak do not survive. But we continue proudly in our fight. As long as our own child is not the next victim. Have a good trip, Vangelis.
Sorry, we are the weak ones and our society.