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So Hunter Thompson shot himself to death. The news said he'd been sick and in a wheelchair.
''I wasn't surprised,'' said George Stranahan, a former owner of the Woody Creek Tavern, one of Thompson's favorite hangouts. ''I never expected Hunter to die in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of him.''
I guess I get it. Something tells me suicide is going to be the way out for a lot of people as the boomers start getting sick and deciding that death is okay but dying in a slow ungainly way, a snip at a time, isn't.
Appreciations of a truly great American writer, here, and here.
''I wasn't surprised,'' said George Stranahan, a former owner of the Woody Creek Tavern, one of Thompson's favorite hangouts. ''I never expected Hunter to die in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of him.''
I guess I get it. Something tells me suicide is going to be the way out for a lot of people as the boomers start getting sick and deciding that death is okay but dying in a slow ungainly way, a snip at a time, isn't.
Appreciations of a truly great American writer, here, and here.
posted by patrickhenry at 9:12 PM
2 Comments:
Suicide is the last resort of hte self-absorrbed, which is why the Boomers will reach for it so readily.
-- Baney
Hunter Thompson was certainly self-absorbed, and tho he wasnt a boomer himself he was a hero to many of us.
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