Review Detail of alabama_man in House of the Rising Sun

MC gets turned into an Immortal and immediately tries to kill himself. After that doesn't work he sleeps for 800 years. The guy is a brainless Muppet. Probably one of the most baffling starts of any stories I have read. Why not just transfer him over directly to the 1800s if you dont want to write about an Immortal living through history?