no joke. Could you imagine setting yourself alive then living horribly disfigured?
No. Which is also puzzling why he did it in public. Where people were bound to react. And on a beach where there is sand/water on hand to put it out. They say suicide is a cry for attention, but I could think of better ways to get attention than this. Streak naked along the beach or something.
Obviously the biggest mistake he made was not doing it at home or somewhere isolated where no one could save him.