Quote Originally Posted by PurplePotatoes
I really loved this man's work and views. I read Hells Angels and Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas this year (the book puts the movie to shame). It's really sad he killed himself, although I read he left a note. I don't condone suicide, but I'm guessing he had his reasons. But Torog, please don't try to drag liberalism into everything that society looks down upon (we aren't communists, we aren't trying to destroy America, we just have different theologies. Of course you think your way is the only right way, otherwise why would you believe it? Just try to respect us at least). I'm sure you know how bad someones life must be when commit suicide (not attempting, but actually DOING it). I had a half brother who killed himself due to a heroin addiction... it's not easy to handle. I was in the sixth grade when all this happened, and considering drugs were unheard of in this area (well, as a kid, and in my mind), I had NO idea how to feel. Should I have felt better there was one less low life on the streets? After all, he was a druggie. Should I be angry because he killed himself and now he's going straight to hell if there is one? This isn't something a 10-12 year old kid should go through.

Thompson accomplished much in his life, and getting on in his years, he had slowed down the pace of his life durastically. Did he ever have a chance to live day by day as a normal person, with not that much happening in his life? Did it drive him insane that he served his purpose, and now he had to wait for death? I hate to say it, but when it's your time to go... it's your time to go. Suicide or not. My step brother didn't have much of a future left anyways, nor did Thompson. Tupac and Biggie died at their peak. The men at the Alamo died at their peak. Your death is how you're remembered in many cases, this will be one. Many famous literary figures who have contributed much to society, have commited suicide, maybe there's a pattern in most of them. Maybe there is a link between maniac depressives and being able to convey emotions in a specfic way or form?

Who knows. I'll miss this man, I was devestated when I found out, suicide or not.

I will host his lecture at Boulder University from 1977, if anyone wants to here it.

P.S.

Torog, Hunter wasn't really a fan of Nixon... at all, and more than likely most conservatives, so I'm sure he wouldn't miss you either if he died.
Howdy PurplePotatoes,

Did you see my post,where I told of my uncle's suicide ? I got to his house,just after they took his body out and nothing had been cleaned up. I was just 16 years old and I saw the bloody,gory results of a .410 shotgun blast to the left eye of my uncle..just days before-we had played some chess,and now-I was looking at his brains and blood,splattered all over the room,and a large deposit of brain and blood matter,in one spot. Everyone had left and I didn't want my grandma to come back and see the mess,so in my shock,I tried to clean the deposit of brains and blood up off the floor..but when they slid back off the piece of cardboard I was using,I realized that it was impossible..so I left -in horror and shock..things are kinda hazy after that,and I have trouble recalling what I did next. So you see...I know all about every aspect of the tradgedy that suicide brings..from discovery..to being the pall-bearer,to the questions,grief and anger..I never got any grief counseling,like they do these days.

Like Thompson,my uncle did not leave a note..which only compounded the tradegy..and leaves us wondering to this day. I read an article by Thompson this morning,in which he spews pure hatred towards Nixon,it became clear to me,that Thompson was full of hatred and negativity..much like the hate and bigotry,that is being constantly spewed by liberals everywhere-against all those who will not join their ideaology.

I believe that your step-brother had a future,if only he had gotten help and was shown that he could succeed in life. Was Thompson destitute at the time of his suicide ? I doubt it..I'm sure..that he didn't have to worry about how he was going to put his next meal on the table,or how he was going to pay the bills..he had many blessings,that many do not-yet he chose to throw it all away..maybe the massive amounts of hatred he possessed..finally drove his own family away..and he was lonely..his family will never know what drove him to suicide-because he didn't leave a note. I pray that God,will ease the pain and suffering of those whom he left behind..and I pray that God,will have mercy on his soul.

Maybe my old man,was too hard on me,my family has told me he was,he literally beat into me,that there are very few gray areas,that I was accountable for everything I did..and when I screwed up-there were no excuses..that Life ,is indeed in black and white terms..and anything else-was being un-manly and weak. I apologize for my harshness and for any pain that I have caused,by being direct and honest..it was the way I was raised.

Have a good one....