FWIW. Heard a student pilot distress call over guard. This pilot flew into inadvertent IMC over the Atlantic Ocean just east of New Smyrna Beach. Controller was trying to talk her back over land and into VFR. Student pilot was responding, ever increasingly frantic. This went on for about 4-5 minutes and then all you heard was the controller trying to raise the student. No response. The next day in the paper there was an article about a student pilot who crashed and died in the Atlantic just east of NSB. Prior to this day I believed that the misuse of the guard frequency was immature and unprofessional. After that day I realized that the misuse of guard is dangerous and potentially deadly. When I hear folks messing around on guard, I remember the day that I heard a pilot die and wonder if there is currently a pilot trying to reach a controller on guard to ask for vital information that could save their life and the life of their passengers.