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02-21-2005, 02:47 AM

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Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself

Associated Press

ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67.

"Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.

Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday.

Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.

Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas, he is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story.

An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998.

Other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness."

[ February 20, 2005, 11:56 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]

Ugly Bastard · 02-21-2005, 02:50 AM

I love hearing about suicides.

-Ugly Bastard

Beebs · 02-21-2005, 02:56 AM

Terrible news.

Cocktooth · 02-21-2005, 02:57 AM

Your a sick sick man UB.....fyi..i was watching point break and when they sky dived i was like...shit theres ub....but of course i wasnt sober!!

Ugly Bastard · 02-21-2005, 02:59 AM

No it was me. I'm in that movie.

-Ugly Bastard

02-21-2005, 03:15 AM

I don't know if this is a fitting end or not.

With most people, a suicide is something to be frowned upon, a bad death.

But did you honestly expect Hunter S. Thompson to live to 90 and die of a malignant tumor, or any other persistant health condition?

Ugly Bastard · 02-21-2005, 03:16 AM

I don't know enough about him to know if I personally expected him to live to 90, but if he's half as weird as Fear and Loathing, then I'm surprised he just now killed himself.

-Ugly Bastard

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 02-21-2005, 04:25 AM

Hunter S. Thompson is a joke, I've been waiting for this day for years.

Beebs · 02-21-2005, 10:44 AM

I always suspected accidental overdose, car wreck, or accidental gunshot.

02-21-2005, 02:39 PM

It's decided.

If it's good enough for Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson then it's good enough for me.

[ February 21, 2005, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]

Beebs · 02-23-2005, 03:05 AM

Late Hunter S. Thompson wanted ashes to be fired from a Cannon
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_050222232905

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide last weekend, wanted to exit this world in a style befitting his extraordinary life: being fired from a cannon, a friend revealed.

The larger-than-life writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" stated in his will that he wanted his ashes to be fired out of a cannon following his funeral, plans for which have yet to be announced.

"I believe he wanted to be shot out of a cannon," friend Troy Hooper told AFP.

"I understand it's in his will," said Hooper, associate editor of the Aspen Daily News, based near the Colorado home where Thompson, 67, apparently shot himself on Sunday.

"That's Hunter's style. That's how he would want it. He was a big fan of bonfires and explosions and anything that went bang and I'm sure he'd like to go bang as well," he said.

Hooper, who became friends with father of "gonzo" journalism about five years before his death, cited reports that Thompson told his son, Juan, that his after-life ambition was to become cannon fodder -- literally.

"That's exactly the kind of stuff he would say all the time," he said of one of the most important American literary figures of the 20th Century.

It was Juan Thompson who found his father's body in his rural home in Woody Creek, near the ski resort of Aspen, after he apparently shot himself in the head on Sunday night.

Hooper, who saw Thompson last week, said Thompson had been in pain following recent back surgery, following a hip replacement and after he broke his leg recently.

But Thompson, famed for his LSD- and alcohol-fuelled literary exploits, did not seem "more distraught than usual" in the days before he died, Hooper said, adding that Thompson was "often either up or down."

Sheriff's department investigators in Woody Creek, where Thompson lived for more than 40 years, said he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Thompson became a sharp-witted icon of 1960s counter-culture after the publications of "Fear and Loathing" in 1972 in which he pioneered "gonzo" journalism, in which the writer inserts himself and his personal views into the story.

His work, written in the first person, hit a chord with America's youth at the height of the unpopular Vietnam and the social rebellion of the 1960s and 70s.

Thompson described the birth of gonzo journalism in a 1974 interview with Playboy, saying he was covering the Kentucky Derby on deadline, but "I'd blown my mind, couldn't work."

"So finally I just started jerking pages out of my notebook and numbering them and sending them to the printer. I was sure it was the last article I was ever going to do for anybody."

Thompson rose to fame in 1966 with the publication of his book "Hell's Angels," the story of his infiltration of the then-feared Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, an adventure that got him savagely beaten.

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the apocryphal tale of a wild, drug-fuelled weekend spent in the desert gambling hub of Las Vegas by protagonist Raoul Duke, a thinly-disguised version of Thompson.

The adventure was recreated in a 1998 Hollywood film starring Johnny Depp.

The stories of Thompson's heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction.

His other works include "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," a collection of articles he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the election campaigns of then-president Richard Nixon and his opponent, Senator George McGovern.

Ironic Mustache · 02-23-2005, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Beebs:
I always suspected accidental overdose, car wreck, or accidental gunshot.

This is what I thought too.

02-23-2005, 02:58 PM

Those are all a loss of control.

Hunter S. Thompson always lived his life on the verge of loosing control, without ever loosing it.

An intentional gunshot is pretty much the perfect ending.

Beebs · 02-23-2005, 03:28 PM

This article is by far the best I have read on the topic, and further cements my belief that Kurt Loder is the most talented news personality of our generation. It avoids hanging from the mans ball bag, while still conveying his greatness. Hunter S Thompson was much more than his reputation as a wild living addict.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/149...headlines=true

Saint DH · 02-23-2005, 04:17 PM

Kurt Loder from MTV is the most talented news personality of our generation? He works for fucking MTV. You're a dumbass. Kurt Loder is a piece of shit.

Beebs · 02-23-2005, 04:19 PM

He's a former Rolling Stone editor, and is the only credible person associated with MTV.

ninjaface · 02-26-2005, 03:38 AM

Thompson 'shot himself on phone'

His widow, Anita Thompson, 32, told the Aspen Daily News she heard the "clicking of the gun".

She said: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it."

Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself.

She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened.

"I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.

Link.

Mr. Blonde · 02-26-2005, 03:44 AM

I don't know what it is about people dying and me becoming interested in them. I've seen Fear and Loathing before, but I may have to read the book now and watch it again. Maybe read some of his other works, as well, seeing as how that article called him "one of the most important US authors of the 20th century".

EDIT: I didn't know a lot about the story of F&L before...that it was based on his real life events...also this 'gonzo journalism' intrigues me as well...kinda wish I was more interested when he was alive

[ February 26, 2005, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

02-26-2005, 04:45 AM

Interested in him after his death?

I'm not sure who you are talking about, but some of us fuckin idolized the man way before his death.

Mr. Blonde · 02-26-2005, 04:50 AM

That's because you're probably*** drunk. I know that you did, i'm saying I wish I would have as well. I'm talking about me, not all of you who liked him before.

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I don't know what it is about people dying and <font size="20">ME</font> becoming interested in them.

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I am drunk on the mobile dj station not sure why i checked nubblies oh well time for another gin and tonic

disregard that "probably"

[ February 26, 2005, 01:53 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]

02-26-2005, 06:24 AM

I wish Hunter S. Thompson was alive right now.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 03-05-2005, 03:49 PM

The only bad thing about Hunter S. Thompson being dead is that he can't die again.

Beebs · 03-07-2005, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork:
Hunter S. Thompson is a joke, I've been waiting for this day for years.

Quote:

Originally posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork:
The only bad thing about Hunter S. Thompson being dead is that he can't die again.

As incredibly witty and funny as it was the first time, it continues to be even moreso the second time around.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 03-07-2005, 01:17 AM

You're right, I agree with you completely. Now if only something could happen to Kurt Loder.

02-21-2005, 02:47 AM	#1 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centr...s/10951488.htm Edit: Author Hunter S. Thompson kills himself Associated Press ASPEN, Colo. - Hunter S. Thompson, the acerbic counterculture writer who popularized a new form of fictional journalism in books like "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," fatally shot himself Sunday night at his home, his son said. He was 67. "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News. Pitkin County Sheriff Bob Braudis, a personal friend of Thompson, confirmed the death to the News. Sheriff's officials did not return calls to The Associated Press late Sunday. Juan Thompson found his father's body. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time. Besides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's time in Las Vegas, he is credited with pioneering New Journalism - or "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. An acute observer of the decadence and depravity in American life, Thompson wrote such books as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" in 1973 and the collections "Generation of Swine" and "Songs of the Doomed." His first ever novel, "The Rum Diary," written in 1959, was first published in 1998. Other books include "Hell's Angels" and "The Proud Highway." His most recent effort was "Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and The Downward Spiral of Dumbness." [ February 20, 2005, 11:56 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]
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02-21-2005, 02:57 AM	#4 (permalink)
Cocktooth Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Warsaw Posts: 4,220 Internets: 124047	Your a sick sick man UB.....fyi..i was watching point break and when they sky dived i was like...shit theres ub....but of course i wasnt sober!!
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02-21-2005, 03:15 AM	#6 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	I don't know if this is a fitting end or not. With most people, a suicide is something to be frowned upon, a bad death. But did you honestly expect Hunter S. Thompson to live to 90 and die of a malignant tumor, or any other persistant health condition?
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02-21-2005, 04:25 AM	#8 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,350 Internets: 290966	Hunter S. Thompson is a joke, I've been waiting for this day for years.
	#YOLO

02-21-2005, 02:39 PM	#10 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	It's decided. If it's good enough for Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson then it's good enough for me. [ February 21, 2005, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]
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02-21-2005, 02:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	I love hearing about suicides. -Ugly Bastard

02-21-2005, 02:56 AM	#3 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	Terrible news.

02-21-2005, 02:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	No it was me. I'm in that movie. -Ugly Bastard

02-21-2005, 03:16 AM	#7 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	I don't know enough about him to know if I personally expected him to live to 90, but if he's half as weird as Fear and Loathing, then I'm surprised he just now killed himself. -Ugly Bastard

02-21-2005, 10:44 AM	#9 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	I always suspected accidental overdose, car wreck, or accidental gunshot.

02-23-2005, 03:05 AM	#11 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	Late Hunter S. Thompson wanted ashes to be fired from a Cannon http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...n_050222232905 LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US author Hunter S. Thompson, who committed suicide last weekend, wanted to exit this world in a style befitting his extraordinary life: being fired from a cannon, a friend revealed. The larger-than-life writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" stated in his will that he wanted his ashes to be fired out of a cannon following his funeral, plans for which have yet to be announced. "I believe he wanted to be shot out of a cannon," friend Troy Hooper told AFP. "I understand it's in his will," said Hooper, associate editor of the Aspen Daily News, based near the Colorado home where Thompson, 67, apparently shot himself on Sunday. "That's Hunter's style. That's how he would want it. He was a big fan of bonfires and explosions and anything that went bang and I'm sure he'd like to go bang as well," he said. Hooper, who became friends with father of "gonzo" journalism about five years before his death, cited reports that Thompson told his son, Juan, that his after-life ambition was to become cannon fodder -- literally. "That's exactly the kind of stuff he would say all the time," he said of one of the most important American literary figures of the 20th Century. It was Juan Thompson who found his father's body in his rural home in Woody Creek, near the ski resort of Aspen, after he apparently shot himself in the head on Sunday night. Hooper, who saw Thompson last week, said Thompson had been in pain following recent back surgery, following a hip replacement and after he broke his leg recently. But Thompson, famed for his LSD- and alcohol-fuelled literary exploits, did not seem "more distraught than usual" in the days before he died, Hooper said, adding that Thompson was "often either up or down." Sheriff's department investigators in Woody Creek, where Thompson lived for more than 40 years, said he appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Thompson became a sharp-witted icon of 1960s counter-culture after the publications of "Fear and Loathing" in 1972 in which he pioneered "gonzo" journalism, in which the writer inserts himself and his personal views into the story. His work, written in the first person, hit a chord with America's youth at the height of the unpopular Vietnam and the social rebellion of the 1960s and 70s. Thompson described the birth of gonzo journalism in a 1974 interview with Playboy, saying he was covering the Kentucky Derby on deadline, but "I'd blown my mind, couldn't work." "So finally I just started jerking pages out of my notebook and numbering them and sending them to the printer. I was sure it was the last article I was ever going to do for anybody." Thompson rose to fame in 1966 with the publication of his book "Hell's Angels," the story of his infiltration of the then-feared Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, an adventure that got him savagely beaten. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is the apocryphal tale of a wild, drug-fuelled weekend spent in the desert gambling hub of Las Vegas by protagonist Raoul Duke, a thinly-disguised version of Thompson. The adventure was recreated in a 1998 Hollywood film starring Johnny Depp. The stories of Thompson's heady experiences earned him a popular reputation as a wild-living, hard-drinking, LSD-crazed writer bent on self-destruction. His other works include "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," a collection of articles he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the election campaigns of then-president Richard Nixon and his opponent, Senator George McGovern.

02-23-2005, 02:58 PM	#13 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	Those are all a loss of control. Hunter S. Thompson always lived his life on the verge of loosing control, without ever loosing it. An intentional gunshot is pretty much the perfect ending.
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a

02-23-2005, 03:28 PM	#14 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	This article is by far the best I have read on the topic, and further cements my belief that Kurt Loder is the most talented news personality of our generation. It avoids hanging from the mans ball bag, while still conveying his greatness. Hunter S Thompson was much more than his reputation as a wild living addict. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/149...headlines=true

02-23-2005, 04:17 PM	#15 (permalink)
Saint DH Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 6,147 Internets: 284753	Kurt Loder from MTV is the most talented news personality of our generation? He works for fucking MTV. You're a dumbass. Kurt Loder is a piece of shit.

02-23-2005, 04:19 PM	#16 (permalink)
Beebs Poor Sport Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Indianapolis / Middlebury / Long Lake Posts: 5,306 Internets: 127341	He's a former Rolling Stone editor, and is the only credible person associated with MTV.

02-26-2005, 03:38 AM	#17 (permalink)
ninjaface Level 20 Holothetan Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Space Posts: 5,245 Internets: 210144	Thompson 'shot himself on phone' His widow, Anita Thompson, 32, told the Aspen Daily News she heard the "clicking of the gun". She said: "I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and did it." Mrs Thompson said her husband had asked her to come home from a health club so they could work on his weekly column, but instead of saying goodbye, he shot himself. She added that she heard a loud, muffled noise, but did not know what had happened. "I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said. Link.

02-26-2005, 03:44 AM	#18 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	I don't know what it is about people dying and me becoming interested in them. I've seen Fear and Loathing before, but I may have to read the book now and watch it again. Maybe read some of his other works, as well, seeing as how that article called him "one of the most important US authors of the 20th century". EDIT: I didn't know a lot about the story of F&L before...that it was based on his real life events...also this 'gonzo journalism' intrigues me as well...kinda wish I was more interested when he was alive [ February 26, 2005, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Blonde ]
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02-26-2005, 04:45 AM	#19 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	Interested in him after his death? I'm not sure who you are talking about, but some of us fuckin idolized the man way before his death.
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02-26-2005, 06:24 AM	#21 (permalink)
DJ FC Guest Posts: n/a	I wish Hunter S. Thompson was alive right now.
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03-05-2005, 03:49 PM	#22 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,350 Internets: 290966	The only bad thing about Hunter S. Thompson being dead is that he can't die again.
	#YOLO

03-07-2005, 01:17 AM	#24 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,350 Internets: 290966	You're right, I agree with you completely. Now if only something could happen to Kurt Loder.
	#YOLO