The man died of cancer, not someone saying they’re glad he’s dead.
I don’t find it useful for people to express glee at death, because death is the last true bastion of equality–but it’s hardly like death is a special and rare event that we’re not allowed to have feelings about. It’s easy enough to draw lines at murder and violence. She knew the man personally, and this gives her a broader moral right to have whatever feelings she likes about his passing, and to express those feelings honestly. It does not, in any way, invalidate or undermine her moral constructs or beliefs, especially with relation with modern American society in the year of our Lord 2018.
