Yes, for some maybe this is a reminder of that inescapable truth. It’s all too easy to become distracted by our selves and our possessions.
“He who dies with the most toys wins” is the mindset of many of these people, and the perceived humiliation from his peers was too much for him to bear.
His whole life was wrapped around the competition with others like him to make the most possible, he lost and people like him don’t handle failure at anything well.