Particularly if you don't like his politics.

It did occur to me, when I saw the odd reference to the "near fatal accident", referred to as the starting point of his depressive problems, that perhaps his fall off one of the cliffs on Galiano wasn't so much a slip as a jump.

If the intention was to "end it all", it would perhaps explain why a broken jaw and ankle looms large as "near fatal" in his mind.