What is so snide about "Good for him, but what a waste to give it to a public school system."???
There are worse place to donate money, but much, much better places as well.
I kind of pity him actually, a little mentally unbalanced perhaps to have lived on the edge of poverty when he had the means to live a decent life, especially toward the end of it. On the other hand there are way too many who live beyond their means and in the end it was his choice.