Suicide by gutting yourself? Fat chance.
That seems kinda wierd, but not so if he was Japanese....oh heck, his name was Ramirez.....never mind!
People kill themselves in a lot of different ways, some of them quite unimaginable to a normal person. They drink Drano, for example. Or jump in front of trucks or trains. And some of them probably do as this guy did.
I don't think we can rule it out just because it seems strange to us. I don't know that we can really understand how a suicidal person is thinking.