Human Rights Watch is a sucky leftist org.
However, I bet this guy was just depressed for some reason. Sometimes I think growing older is for the wealthy to accept - an older wealthy family member has had two friends of hers (in their 80s) jump off the balconies of their very luxurious condos. It's odd, when you realize that they wouldn't have had the financial stress and other problems that the rest of us have. But it doesn't seem to be unusual.
You could be right.
No doubt he understood the numbers: 9 floors = SPLAT!