The death of Arthur Miller was too much for him...
A terminal case of self-fear & loathing?
PEST (Post Election Selection Trauma) claims another victim. Or maybe it was the years of heavy drug and alcohol abuse.
I just read a Salon interview with him. What a burnt out hippie, who killed to many brain cells. Trashing american voters, Bush....But he loves Pat buchanan and guns.(obviously)
Gonzo to the end......I heard the last thing that went through his mind......
......was his teeth
(recycled Kurt Cobain sick joke)
He seemed too much a cranky cynic to take his life because of depression. But a pragmatic choice in the face of incurable lung-cancer sounds about right.
"Better to burn out than to slowly fade away." -- Neil Young
Kerry Will Come Through (By Hunter S. Thompson)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266838/posts
I have to say it......It was cheaper then moving to Canada....
As a previous article posted on FR said today, he turned himself into a bloody corpse for his wife to find. What a man.
He was the journalistic equivalent of "Laugh-In" in terms of relevance and insight.
You heard it here first, he's still dead...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hunterthompson