What I find most revolting, is not that a famous animal died. Animals die every day, so do humans. No, the thing that disgusts me most, is that wealthy people from the West fly to poor Africa to satisfy their needs for killing something. What they call "hunt", is just an euphemism for the desire to kill - a miserable excuse to kill something that cannot defend itself.
Hunting is when you kill a deer or a boar in the need for food or to control the species' population (because the natural predators have been eradicated). I can accept that. After all, we all eat animals that had to be killed at some point.
Flying to Africa to shoot a lion, however, is not hunting. It's not honorable. On the contrary: That whole "man vs. beast" jabbering is bullshit, coming from cowards. Because they always kill from a safe distance and even if they use a crossbow, there are at least two people with a rifle standing right next to him - just in case.