Perhaps he was already unconscious from the previous night's injuries, they knocked him out with some type of gas, or something. Or perhaps he was freshly dead and hadn't cooled yet. But it sure was odd.
And then, to climb up over the gunwale on his own efforts? And after shooting himself in the head/neck? If I had just gone through all of that, tried to kill myself, and knew I was surrounded; I would have been so tired and beat I would have thought to myself “Screw ‘em. If they want me so bad, THEY can climb up here and get me.”
There were pictures on the ground of him also, just remembered seeing them, someone said something about his underwear. he seem to be pretty fiesty still and do not remember seeing blood.