You're all wrong. Apparently he was alive for an hour after they found him.
Now we get the chance for a full blown Shakespearian soliloquy.
"I said, once more into the breach dear friends, but they said the hole in the wall was too small and they were too fat. Then, like the gentle dew falling from the heavens our prayers were answered and the wall was rent assunder.
As I lay there wondering at the stars in the firmament I realised there were 51 of them.
neigh whole clusters of them, just like the Pliedes
as someone gently tugged at my bollocks to see if I was OK.
Alas I felt not a thing as they were in the next room