Kingdom of Fear.

[reddragdiva]

Damn.

Update: Action figure!

Comments

[elijahtc.livejournal.com]

Now there is a shame!

[hestia.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Maybe I'm in denial but suicide and Hunter S. Thompson just doesn't track.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Why not? I can't think of anything more in character. I can't imagine him taking very kindly to the encroaching enfeeblement of old age and ending up reliant on the care of others as his body slowly failed him.

I think he decided his time was done and decided to leave this world the same way he lived his life - in a manner and at a time of his own choosing and no-one else's.

[reddragdiva]

I can't find the particular report now, but he apparently spent the last year quite ill and depressed.

[lucybond.livejournal.com]

Bummer :(

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

Didn't we all?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

I really should read some of his stuff. It's sad that him dying is likely to prod me into such.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS is the place to start

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

There's a fairly sad biography of him that I've got here somewhere (unlike the man's own books that I can put my hands on much quicker). He couldn't have been easy to live with, or easy on himself.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Poppy Z. Brite (http://www.livejournal.com/users/docbrite/2005/02/21/) has some insight into the matter....

[hestia.livejournal.com]

I read that this morning. Suicide makes alot more sense to me now.