What about objects who are referenced by more than one object, and which are linked to resources? try... finally blocks are just a different way of freeing your resources at the end of a block, and won't help with objects which outlive the block they are guarding.

Actually, here is your choice: either you'll have to manage every kind of resource except memory (garbage collected languages), or you'll have to manage only memory (C++).

Yes, that's true, but at the cost of syntactic noise. It's a preference, and one gets used to it I guess, but to me all the try blocks are harder to read than code where variables have a fixed lifetime, so where you in many cases can avoid the extra indent level.