" He was not only useless as an officer, and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright; so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more. ‘Overboard!’ said the captain. ‘Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons. "

― Robert Louis Stevenson , Treasure Island