Reminds me of Karl Wallenda.
That was a profoundly bad situation. IIRC, he was 73 y.o. and it was windy and as you look back at the still images, you just wasn’t to hit rewind and persuade him not to go. However far he fell he landed on cars and there was no chance of surviving. There is something about the still images of him realizing that either he wasn’t strong enough for the wind, or the rigging was not right - or something, but you can just see it on his face.
With one exception...
Wallenda was 73 years old, and he looked like a struggling old man when he fell off the tightrope.