Although I dont know why the person was trying to commit suicide, I cant stand it when people think they have nothing to live for. There always something good you can squeeze out of life. It might not be that much, but it might have much meening to yourself. I dont know what happened to make the guy want to do that, but I bet if he just worked through the whole problem, he could have came out a better person. The incident almost reminds me of drunk-driving, where the drunk guy lives and the innocent child/citizen dies. Except the person in the road was actually the guy doing DWI. Not actually,... but metaphorically.
Al Pacino came out of the theater... Bruce Willis came out of the T.V... But Mel Gibson, came out of nowhere.