How dreadful Thompson. I've just looked this up, and the poor man was a Gambian (a country I've visited many times) He refused to avail himself of the lifebelts thrown to him, and appeared to want to die. He was only 22. However can people laugh and shout insults at a drowning man? And what degree of despair was he suffering, to want to end his life like this?
I'm old now, and I often feel I shall be glad to leave this earth when the time comes.