The poor guy shouldn't have had to go through with such a desperate and violent act. If only he could have been put to sleep, as is done for the severely depressed in some enlightened places in the world. Of course, that option requires a good deal of pre-planning, which suicidal folk often can not manage.
You know, it occurs to me that the foul abundance of litter visible from the window would have been enough by itself to make a sensitive soul jump. Why are people such pigs?