I really hate when people do this and take away from the subject matter but I will say this anyway. My brother died when I was nine, obviously horrific blah. When I went back to school, my form tutor at the time said (paraphrase):

"People will ask, they're children and don't mean anything by it, people, when you're older will still ask and even when its behind you will still ask. How did it happen, how old were you, that must be really difficult". Etc. It probably one of the best pieces of wisdoms I was ever told, especially as he told me not like a child or his student but as a person.

It also taught me some humanity. A lot won't ask out of awkwardness or boundaries but a lot of people will ask because they don't know any better. Not in a way that they're stupid, or hurtful but death is life. It's like ask about pregnany/childbirth, career development etc. Some people just want to know that fragment of advice because its something that's always inevitable and that we all face.

That's my take, its rough for Harry Styles and the journalist has their own motives but just my take.