If at first you don't succeed

According to the Scotsman newspaper (and actually reported in a far less salubrious paper, in which Welsh Mark read it although he claims he didn't actually buy it *cough* Daily Mail *cough*), the fella that topped himself by stepping in front of my train last week was actually on his second attempt of the day. Bit mad that, I wonder how he felt having survived the first attempt. Sounds like a crazily exhilarating thing to experience, but obviously not something that made him think life was worth living still :-(