You start the boat journey, but die
You join the many others who never make it across the Mediterranean. There is hardly any accurate data on the numbers of people that have died making this journey. The Fortress Europe blog lists a total of 19,812 people who died or went missing on their way to Europe from 1988 until the end of June 2014. As one Syrian man told the Guardian when speaking about his friends that did not survive the journey: They got asylum in the sea.
October 5, 2013: Coffins are laid out in a hangar at Lampedusa airport after a boat packed with migrants sank, killing more than 360 people.
