Why?!

[psychofiend]

I been gone for awhile, granted, and that is why i am doing this at such a late time. Does anyone else feel a little betrayed by Hunter Thompson killing himself? At the same time i also feel like he is free. His death made me wonder if anything he did was really about what he said it was about. It seems now in his death that his life was dedicated only to self destruction.
http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/class/images/Thompson.Hunter.jpg

[Efexeye]

Frankly- I could care less. I just think killing yourself is inconsiderate to the people that love you.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

You're still so wrapped up in a person's image. I always thought once you grew out of that phase you might end up being pretty cool.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Frankly- I could care less. I just think killing yourself is inconsiderate to the people that love you.'

Totally agree.

[ratm1966]

I have no compassion for people who kill themselves and don't think anything special should be done for them once they are dead.

[Gotherella]

Maybe he knew he had some debilitating disease that was going to take him out slowly and painfully? Just guessing.

[psychofiend]

You're still so wrapped up in a person's image. I always thought once you grew out of that phase you might end up being pretty cool.
Actually, i've been more wrapped up in Grateful Dead than Hunter, but the good Dr. was an amazing fella.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Actually, i've been more wrapped up in Grateful Dead than Hunter, but the good Dr. was an amazing fella.
Actually, I think he was pretty weird.

[Efexeye]

Actually, i've been more wrapped up in Grateful Dead than Hunter, but the good Dr. was an amazing fella.

Amazing how, because he took lots of drugs and wrote about it? Seems to me anyone can do that...

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Actually, i've been more wrapped up in Grateful Dead than Hunter, but the good Dr. was an amazing fella.Oh, you didn't even know who he was until he died. I'm sure you just happened to discover Ray Charles recently as well.

[psychofiend]

Amazing how, because he took lots of drugs and wrote about it? Seems to me anyone can do that...
Tell me then, jackass, where are your millions?

[psychofiend]

Oh, you didn't even know who he was until he died. I'm sure you just happened to discover Ray Charles recently as well.
I discovered Hunter Thompson 2 years before he died.
Next dumb argument please.

[Mighty Wingman]

Well, he did get shot out of a cannon, so maybe he was looking forward to that.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Two years, granted, is a long time, but you probably only know him for the Depp movie and probably haven't read anything that he wrote before then.

Just making an assumption.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I discovered Hunter Thompson 2 years before he died.
Next dumb argument please.Because I so believe anything you say.

[Efexeye]

Tell me then, jackass, where are your millions?

Hmm,a very mature and well-thought-out post! Can you tell me why you think he was so great, instead of making lame attempts to undermine me?

EDIT: By the way, those millions? They're doing him a lot of good now, aren't they?

[Matt1]

Amazing how, because he took lots of drugs (http://server4.103092804.com/Release3/linkredirect.php?h=42046,404550,1115842661) and wrote about it? Seems to me anyone can do that...
Not the way Hunter did.

And as for his suicide, and suicide in general, I believe we all have the right to leave this world when we want. That being said, I think it is a stupid right to exercise unless you have a really good reason and aren't going to hurt your loved ones.

[BAMSS04]

Tell me then, jackass, where are your millions?

Dude, you are really pissing me off. We have had three threads about this kind of crap. Efexeye was asking a simple question, one in which you could not answer. So then why call him a jackass.

I swear.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Do you remember this guy at all?

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Do you remember this guy at all?
I think he joined after Psy left.

[Efexeye]

Dude, you are really pissing me off. We have had three threads about this kind of crap. Efexeye was asking a simple question, one in which you could not answer. So then why call him a jackass.

I swear.

I expect it from certain people now, doesn't really bother me....small minds think alike, you know. I doubt Psycho read through all the old threads- it's cool, man- there's no shame in being a pariah! ;)

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Dude, you are really pissing me off. We have had three threads about this kind of crap. Efexeye was asking a simple question, one in which you could not answer. So then why call him a jackass.

I swear.Trust me, unloading on PF is so easy after a tough day. I do it so much because it makes me feel like a big man.

[BAMSS04]

I expect it from certain people now, doesn't really bother me....small minds think alike, you know. I doubt Psycho read through all the old threads- it's cool, man- there's no shame in being a pariah! ;)

It just bothers me, I guess. Its not been a good day thus far at work, so I am already on edge.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Just think happy thoughts and they will go away!

My co-worker was on my nerves the other day and thought of her head exploding..that made me laugh.

[psychofiend]

It just bothers me, I guess. Its not been a good day thus far at work, so I am already on edge.
Dude, i know how to fix those problems. Run up to someone tap them say "you're it" and run away. That comedian that said that was so right, it's sooo much fun.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Dude, i know how to fix those problems. Run up to someone tap them say "you're it" and run away. That comedian that said that was so right, it's sooo much fun.
No one played with you on the playground did they?

[psychofiend]

No one played with you on the playground did they?
I um.... don't want to talk about it :(
I must say though, my senior year in high school i have much more friends. I didn't really change, they did and they don't know it.

[Denyse]

No...I'm guessing their drugs are stronger and they are drinking more, so they don't care...

[karmattack]

I been gone for awhile, granted, and that is why i am doing this at such a late time. Does anyone else feel a little betrayed by Hunter Thompson killing himself? At the same time i also feel like he is free. His death made me wonder if anything he did was really about what he said it was about. It seems now in his death that his life was dedicated only to self destruction.

Hunter was awesome. I can't really say that his death changes the way I think about his life. He was a wreckless, rebellious, drug-addled, feindish villain. But in a way that does all those terms some justice. His suicide was selfish, probably rash and poorly planned, overly dramatic, defiant, and fueled by as much right as it was with wrong. But what one of those things doesn't describe his life?

[bwdial]

Frankly- I could care less. I just think killing yourself is inconsiderate to the people that love you.

Especially when you are on the phone with one of them.
On the subject of writing on drugs...

...Coleridge > Thompson

[Asteban]

I was super pissed off when I found out he killed himself. Yeah, I didn't know about him until Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (what can I say, I'm a huge Depp fan, and have been since I was 5 years old). But he was still a really cool guy. I read an article about him that Johnny Depp had written in a Rolling Stone tribute to Hunter S. Thompson issue. It was awesome. I'm a little pissed off that he committed suicide though.

On to more important deaths.... Mitch Hedberg.... I'm still sad about that one.

[jjcourtright]

Lots of good stories in the Rolling Stone tribute. I know very little about the guy, never seen Fear and Loathing in LV, and all I've ever read was his stuff for ESPN.com. But, the tribute issue, especially Johnny Depp's story, really gave me a hankerin' to read some of his stuff. That hankerin' has of course passed...