Author Topic: hunter s. has left the building. (sigh) (Read 2168 times)

JB88 · « **Reply #30 on:** February 22, 2005, 12:31:39 PM »

interesting - doonsbury site today

ask duke

lazs2 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 22, 2005, 02:51:05 PM »

gonzo... where did I say that I wished you to kill yourself? I don't think that was really a fair statement as I have never wished that on anyone that I can recall and I don't even know or care about you.

My point was.... you did not. I did not. Pain may be an excuse. I meant incurable disease but you said simple back pain. The man was not adverse to self medicating so I doubt that he suffered much except..

drug addicts are the biggest babies I have ever seen.. even the tiniest amount of pain is enough for them to whine about even though they have enough drugs in em to tranquilize an elephant.

I believe that his suicide was probly just the ultimate expression of his lack of understanding of the human condition.

lazs

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #32 on:** February 22, 2005, 03:08:27 PM »

Usually when someone online says "why didn't you go kill yourself" it's usually meant as wishful thinking.

I said "intense" back pain. The kind of stuff that no amount of Motrin will fix and which can make you instantly crippled and paralyzed at any moment of the damn day.

Thompson did drugs and booze for recreational purposes mainly. I've read just about everything he's written and I never got the impression these substances were a crutch - it was just something he liked to do. On the many occasions he got injured, it was more an excuse to do more drinking than an actual need.

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From news coming out after the fact, this was all planned out. He had started leaving instructions for people, and changing his plans for parts of his estate recently. Not in a way that anyone would piece it together before hand, but in hindsight it's more clear that he had made a decision. Apparently the pain he was in from back surgery and a hip replacement made him want to end it before he started to waste away from this chronic disabilities.

JB88 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 22, 2005, 07:07:50 PM »

i think that i would have expected him to leave a note... then perhaps to steal off to some faraway mountain refuge to pause for one final meandering view of the panoramic vista; standing there, admiring the best part of a quiet earth and muttering something about rosebud.

if only just long enough to reflect and enjoy the mystery of it all...sitting up one last time to scream from the mountain to that the great punctuator that he too had been denied...a life on his terms to the end...an existentialist soul pulling the trigger in one last great thunderclap.

(cue the blackbirds)

thud.

alas. only we critics remain.

Dune · « **Reply #34 on:** February 22, 2005, 11:19:41 PM »

RIP.

Dune · « **Reply #35 on:** February 22, 2005, 11:38:49 PM »

Ode to Jack, by Hunter S. Thompson

lazs2 · « **Reply #36 on:** February 23, 2005, 08:39:00 AM »

yeah gonzo... only you and hunter know about pain. Broke my back twice.. nine broken vertebrae.. fused on it's own.. leg amputated and reatached three years to get to the point I could use it. couple of minor surgeries lately... aorta valve replacement and gall bladder. bone grafts few other minor compound fractures along the way.

never thought he used drugs as a crutch? being constantly loaded is a friggin crutch... he was simply a drug addict and alchholic.

He didn't know enough about life to live it because of the drugs.

just my opinion based on being a former drug addict and alcoholic and knowing a ****load of same. he was a little more clever than the average...... maybe.

lazs

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #37 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:03:31 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
yeah gonzo... only you and hunter know about pain. ...

I didn't say that. I corrected your other misrepresentation of what I said. If you insist on using the Shrubert School of Intardnet for posting here, I'm afraid I'm just gonna have to ignore you.

mosgood · « **Reply #38 on:** February 23, 2005, 12:18:20 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
yeah gonzo... only you and hunter know about pain. Broke my back twice.. nine broken vertebrae.. fused on it's own.. leg amputated and reatached three years to get to the point I could use it. couple of minor surgeries lately... aorta valve replacement and gall bladder. bone grafts few other minor compound fractures along the way.

never thought he used drugs as a crutch? being constantly loaded is a friggin crutch... he was simply a drug addict and alchholic.

He didn't know enough about life to live it because of the drugs.

just my opinion based on being a former drug addict and alcoholic and knowing a ****load of same. he was a little more clever than the average...... maybe.

lazs

ROTFL..... so Laz... are you a hollywood stunt man or is all those injuries the price you pay for having such a charming personality?

Seriously, if you have talked about this before on the boards... i missed threads.... how does all that crap happen?

lazs2 · « **Reply #39 on:** February 23, 2005, 02:48:59 PM »

you may not believe this but not everyone is charmed by me! some have even attemted to customize my manly good looks and in the process... only made things better. No woman can resist me.

The heart valve was apparently a birth deffect that I never knew about till recently... don't know what causes gall stones and I am so free of gall that I had allways assumed I was born without the organ.

One broken back was in a car wreck in my teens.. the other in a motorcycle wreck later. I rode Harleys back before women or accountants rode em. I rode em when I was a drug addict and alcoholic... the combination is somewhat non conducive to a healthy and long lifestyle. I have outlived every one of my friends from those days except one.

amputated leg was less than surgicaly removed by the bumper of a drunks Cadilac el dorado.

I prefer figting on the ionternet now with all you bright young lads.

lazs

lazs2 · « **Reply #40 on:** February 23, 2005, 02:52:59 PM »

gonzo... you corected me on back pain by saying "intense" back pain... I would venture to say that most here who have had back injuries understand what back pain is all about. You also claimed that my wish was for you to die.

That was not true either.

lazs

rpm · « **Reply #41 on:** February 23, 2005, 04:52:43 PM »

Anything worth doing is worth doing right. This is the American Dream in action. We would be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way to to end.

DoKGonZo · « **Reply #42 on:** February 23, 2005, 11:03:10 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
gonzo... you corected me on back pain by saying "intense" back pain... I would venture to say that most here who have had back injuries understand what back pain is all about. You also claimed that my wish was for you to die.

That was not true either.

I corrected you by quoting my original post where I used the word "intense" as opposed to your much toned down modifier. You tried to change my words and I caught you at it.

And you used the statement "Why didn't you commit suicide ...?" ... sure sounded like wishful thinking.

And now you're trying to slide in a dishonesty subtext. Lame. So very, very lame.

Bottom line is everyone has a different threshhold for pain and unhappiness. Creative people are more prone to depression, so that also needs to be added to the equation with HST. Maybe that's not something you can understand, but others reading this I'm sure do.

NUKE · « **Reply #43 on:** February 23, 2005, 11:08:58 PM »

I don't see what's so special about the drug addict loser. He killed himself........he's a loser.

Nash · « **Reply #44 on:** February 24, 2005, 12:39:01 AM »

Please.....