An Australian rules football player goes on an end-of-season trip to Las Vegas with some of his teammates. He gets blind drunk, ends up at a hotel where he is not staying, tries to jump from the balcony of a room onto a palm tree and falls to the ground.
Unfortunately, the man dies as a result of this fall. He is just 22, not anywhere near the age where one thinks of death.
A local paper in Melbourne describes him as a hero.
Which means that many others should aspire to be like him. After all, we all want to be heroes don’t we?
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