Fear and Loathing: The Thompson Wake

Rocky Mountain News Nah, they're just different. Gimme a freakin' break, already, would ya? I don't think I'v eever read anything more bizarre.

ASPEN — Hunter S. Thompson heard the ice clinking.

The literary champ was sitting in his command post kitchen chair, a piece of blank paper in his favorite typewriter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot through the mouth hours earlier.

But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.

Anita Thompson does not know why Hunter Thompson chose the .45 from his vast collection of guns. But he was deft with his death. "He did not destroy his face," Anita Thompson says. "He did it in his mouth. His face was beautiful. It was quick. It was not grisly or gruesome by any means. That's probably why he took that gun. He spared us a gruesome scene."

My God, she is crazier than he was ... and she acts like staying on the "expansion property" and "managing his works" is such a sacrifice. LOL She was at the gym when he offed himself. She's 32 to his 67, I believe. Yeah! Life's a beach, I suppose. Freakin' major wacko, make sure you read the article. Unbelieveable.

Comments

[Van Helsing]

No, letting your wife find you at the kitchen table with the back your head blown out isn't the least bit grisly or gruesome -- any more than sitting around getting drunk with the corpse would be. After all, suicide is a "triumph". Another triumphant day in the lives of our intellectual elite.

[Rhod]

Word is he was on the phone to his wife, with his son, son's wife and grandchild in the house when he offed himself. This is sadistic and seven shades of nuts and everyone around him was the same.

His writing made you want to read more, like Mailer's (sometimes), but in the end, it seemed pretty empty of content to me. Thompson probably found himself in the same popular cul de sac as Hemmingway...it's hard to sustain a caricature of yourself forever without blowing your brains out.

Someday before too long it will be "Hunter Who?"