Check your gear please! If not for yourself do it for your partners!

It is tragic that Todd Skinner died. It is even more tragic that the cause was failure of his belay loop while raping. To discuss weather or not a backup would have prevented this or not I leave up to you, but Todd had a reputation as being a safe climber. Answers to many of the questions people have will never be known. They have gone with Todd. I think that any climber would want others to learn from their mistakes, so lets take what we can out of this tragedy and reevaluate our gear and our climbing practices.
I've checked my gear, and will be phasing some of it out very soon. Please check your gear too.

This is a link to some information on Todd accident:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/10/26/CLIMBER.TMP