Hunter S. Thompson

[Rothko1000]

Uncle Duke commits suicide at age 67! I've got to say that I'm deeply saddened by the news. I really don't know what to say right now. It's hard to hear of a longtime hero taking his own life. We have lost a literary genius. I first read "Fear and Loathing" when I was 16 years old....heavy reading for a kid from Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. It opened me to a new subculture of thinking and living. I can't believe he checked himself out. Maybe he was sick. I will miss him dearly!

[DABEARS]

I was shocked.....needless to say, when I heard the news. The world of journalism just lost an amazing writer. Maybe we'll never know why, but I was hooked after I read Fear and Loathing as well, my wife cringes every time I put in the DVD...........has all new meaning now. RIP Uncle Duke.

:gulp: :bow:

[Rothko1000]

Originally posted by DABEARS
I was shocked.....needless to say, when I heard the news. The world of journalism just lost an amazing writer. Maybe we'll never know why, but I was hooked after I read Fear and Loathing as well, my wife cringes every time I put in the DVD...........has all new meaning now. RIP Uncle Duke.

I've read just about every article online and nothing really eludes to the fact of why he did commit suicide. I mean, he was a deranged individual but suicide for him would almost seem too conventional! I have a sneakin' suspicion he may have been sick and decided to take matters in his own hands! I just can't believe he committed suicide.....wtf!!!

[DABEARS]

I think you may be right. He very well could have been ill, but he definately didn't remind me of the type to cash his own check. Yeah, I did some research as well, but found nothing. An absolute travesty..................something had to be going on.

[Big Pimpin]

Strangely enough fellas,people who commit suicide have issues that not many outsiders know or see coming.


Reasons to be never known

[redsfann]

Sad news indeed. I was a naive young college student who had never heard of H.S.T. when a buddy down the hall in my dorm popped into my room one day and said he was speaking on campus the next week. This is 1983 for all that are interested, and i was a freshman at the University of Iowa.

Now I smoked just as much dope and dropped as much acid and drank as much as beer(and banged enough broads..lol) as the next guy, but I just didn't grow up in a very hip neighborhood, so i had no idea who this guy was.

My buddy just looked at me in disbelief, left and returned with a raggedy copy of "fear and lothing in las vegas" and said read this immediately. So I did, and the rest was history. We split a hit of killer blotter the next week andhim and me and about a 1/2 dozen more all went down to the student union to see H.S.T.

He was 45 minutes late and bombed out of his mind when he finally arrived, and the crowd was wild with anticipation as he took his seat at the desk on the stage. He started to mumble into the mic, which was shitty and you couldn't hardly hear him over the 1000+ people jammed into the ballroom at the memorial union. we were all just wigged out on this great acid and the whole scene was just surreal....the crowd starting booing because no one could hear anything, and Hunter started cursing us for being assholes...many people began to leave and soon me and my buddies found ourselves in the 2nd row and we could hear without any problems at all....he had a full bottle of Wild Turkey at his side and before he got done speaking and talking questions from the audience he finished it and made a big dent in another bottle.
All in all, just one of the most intense and crazy nights in a lot of wild and intense nights that I spent during my undergrad years at the U of Iowa.
Now, over 20 years later, I'm married, own a house, am self-employed and haven't touch any kind of drug other than alcohol in over 15 years....I grew up and Hunter stayed the same...and he stayed my hero as well....

R.I.P, H.S.T.....

[nikkins]

Check this out guys -

Thompson shot self while talking with wife
'He set the receiver down and he did it'
Friday, February 25, 2005 Posted: 8:16 AM EST (1316 GMT)



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ASPEN, Colorado (AP) -- The widow of journalist Hunter S. Thompson said her husband killed himself while the two were talking on the phone.

"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.

She said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly ESPN column -- but instead of saying goodbye, he set the telephone down and shot himself.

Thompson said she heard a loud, muffled noise, but didn't know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.

Hunter Thompson, famous for "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and other works of New Journalism, shot himself in the head Sunday in the kitchen of his Aspen-area home. He was 67.

His son, daughter-in-law and 6-year-old grandson were in the house when the shooting occurred.

Anita Thompson, 32, said her husband had discussed killing himself in recent months and had been issuing verbal and written directives about what he wanted done with his body, his unpublished works and his assets.

His suicidal talk put a strain on their relationship, she said.

"He wanted to leave on top of his game. I wish I could have been more supportive of his decision," she said. "It was a problem for us."



http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/books/02/25/thompsondeath.wife.ap/index.html

[Big Pimpin]

Here's the latest story I found which prolly tells it all


http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20050226/ts_latimes/thompsonswifeforgiveshissuicide