No life at all, Meatpie. What a shame and a waste...
Why can't he look in the mirror and tell himself "I'm young, I'm hot, there's at least one guy in the world who enjoys screwing me..."? I don't understand, because I don't know him, but like you say, there are thousands like him. The suicide rate among young males in the UK is just plain terrible. You pass a guy in the street, and for all you know he's lost in his world of private pain, and he's totally blind to all the beauty and joy and fun that life could offer him, and he ends up like young Marcus...
It doesn't bear thinking about. There must be something badly wrong with a world that leaves so many young people feeling lost and alone. I've met a few myself. And I agree, it doesn't make a bit of difference whether you're in a beautiful city or a god-awful one, because if you've lost hope, the place you're really living in is hell.