Thompson's suicide should be viewed as tragic result of depression

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 5, 2005 | Russ Winter

[cyborg]

Color me skeptical.

[peyton randolph]

Other than terrorists, I generally don't wish anyone ill. That being said, Thompson was a hard man to like. Playing amateur psychologist, this guy had more than a few screws missing...it wasn't just a case of depression.

[whereasandsoforth]

I believe the FDA outlawed Skeptical dyes and pigmentations due to health risks. Would you settle for Unamused #3?

[scott7278]

Suicide is tragic, no matter who is involved. It saddens me that this man went through his entire life in rebellion, then took his life with his family present in the house.

There is also something wrong when human life is so devalued that the family would be okay with it, and then propose his body to be shot out of a cannon.

[cyborg]

That's fine :D

[MisterRepublican]

Depression was the least of Thompson's problems. Years of heavy drug and alcohol abuse would better explain his behavior.

[Manic_Episode]

Alcoholism is suicide on the installment plan.
40 years later he just did it for real.
Not a happy existance, all self inflicted.

[Michael.SF.]

Thompson again hurls himself into relevance. Once again, he did it by glorifying that which polite society abhors...

[Brian Allen]

<< Thompson's suicide should be viewed as tragic result of depression >>

What garbage.

It was the ultimate psychopathologically-infantile gutless coward's way out perpetrated by the ultimate psychopathologically-infantile alcoholic gutless coward.

The low-life piece of **it killed himself as he'd always lived: -- absolutely selfishly and with total disregard for any and every other Human being.

[StonyBurk]

Seems to me Thompsons' "suicide" is proof that the Bible is
inerrant. When the Apostle Paul in his letter to those called to be saints at Rome speaks of those who have rejected God and been given over to a reprobate mind for that( given their hearts desire-having rejected the Truth)
They tend to heap unto themselves that recompense for their
sins that is due. Having rejected God Thompson finally
reached that point when he realized he had Nothing to live for -and No idea how to turn again and seek the face of God.

[prion]

Alcoholism is suicide on the installment plan.

It's true. My great aunt drank a fifth of bourbon a day, and it finally caught up with her just after her 97th birthday. Though, frankly, I'm guessing what killed her is when they stopped buying her cigarettes.

Seriously, considering all the chemicals this guy ate in his lifetime, isn't it amazing that he made it into his sixties and had to put a bullet through his head?

[Leo Carpathian]

Are the rest of the RATs not far behind him?

[cinnathepoet]

I never even heard of this guy before he killed himself. Now I don't stop hearing about him.

[P_A_I]

It was the ultimate psychopathologically-infantile gutless coward's way out perpetrated by the ultimate psychopathologically-infantile alcoholic gutless coward.

The low-life piece of **it killed himself as he'd always lived: -- absolutely selfishly and with total disregard for any and every other Human being.
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One can only wonder why you care, considering your hate for the man.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Liberals have evolved into a self-destructing American hating party. They are unable to get along with with conservatives, Bush, themselves, the public, the military, religion, the judicial system, the tax system..., and the media's only function is to sit beside them to echo this negative crap. Why wouldn't Dowd hate Christmas? What do these people have to wake-up to? I am truly surprised more of them aren't blowing their heads off.

[NDGG]

Such is the life of one who subscribes to the myth of existentialism. Thompson did what he wanted and "bucked the system", following a moral relativist belief of morality. The complex system that God created has both physical and moral laws that were created to keep us safe from ourselves. When we "buck the system" our lives will inevitably be filled with pain and heartache.

[Brian Allen]

<< One can only wonder why you care, considering your hate for the man. >>

Hate? What a peculiar and presumptuous judgement to make. I trust you realize it is a projection, though, considering that I remainly dispassionately objective -- and you are the only one here talking about feelings.

That is: I wrote what I think, what I believe, what I know -- and you, having read it, told me how you choose to feel.

[theFIRMbss]

>Seems to me Thompsons' "suicide" is proof that the Bible is inerrant

And, yet, Helen lives . . . Must be true that God works in mysterious ways . . .