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02-22-2005, 12:21 PM | #17 |
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Well that didn't say anything.
Barring any evidence to the contrary it seems the paragon of paranoid gonzo reporting went out with a wimper instead of a bang.
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02-23-2005, 01:25 AM | #18 |
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I doubt that he thought to use a silencer ...
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Just thought of a really important question ...
Is G.B. Trudeau going to kill off Uncle Duke?
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found this on doonesbury.com
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02-25-2005, 12:03 PM | #23 |
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Sounds like they are trying to Spin this a little to me.
Especially when... "Family members had no hint that Thompson planned to take his own life, Brinkley said, and he did not leave a note. "There was no farewell salutation,' he said."
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02-25-2005, 01:54 PM | #24 |
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Here is an interesting article quoting his wife heavily about his last hours.
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02-25-2005, 02:13 PM | #25 |
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That article sounds...weird. It makes her sound weird.
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all i'm saying is that maybe she really is a little nutty. or selfmedicated. or both.
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I don't have much to say about that other than having watched my wife take care of her father in his final two years in Parkinsons, I can possibly understand the motivation for someone with that disease or something like terminal bone cancer to spare themselves the final months or weeks. I heard John Wayne thought about it However, by all accounts the man was in good health. Saying to oneself "this is as good as my life is ever going to get, so it's all downhill from here" sounds like really bad reason for suicide. I think Dennis Leary said it best - Quote:
One of the really nice rules of nature is that in most cases, really awful stuff is stuff that kills you. Almost everything else you can get over. This whole 'killing oneself because this is as good as life gets' implies some kind of psychic ability to absolutely know what will be coming next. That's bullshit. Rodney Dangerfield was a paint salesman until he was 42 and didn't star in his first film until he was almost 60. Should he have picked up a gun and shot himself after his divorce at 41? I appreciated everything that HT stood for, but if his suicide is his last piece of 'gonzo' performance art, then I'm not buying it.
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Possibly your best post ever Rich. Thanks for saying it.
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02-26-2005, 10:39 AM | #30 |
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I agree, UT. Great post, rich. Equating a suicide as a gesture of strength and control? Somebody's living in DelusionLand. If he was surrounded by people like his wife maybe it DID seem like a good idea. Who knows what all they romanticized? Who was that author/actor that threw himself off the ferry in NYC a few years ago?
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