Can you imagine?

[kyburg]

Hunter S. Thompson

-and-

Dr. Gene Scott

Are now in the same place. Oh, to hear the discussion and name-calling that must be going on - can you imagine it?

A quick word on Thompson's passing, though.

You can be famous. Beloved by millions - needed desperately by the whole freaking world.

If you won't give yourself a break, value your own life or find a way through what bugs you - it won't matter.

It's an incredible responsiblity - and just as incredible a freedom.

You don't need to be famous to be happy; there's no safety in assuming you would be if you were.

And it only proves the old saw that many suicides are surrounded by people who loved them - they just couldn't sense it.

And oh, how we're going to miss him.

Comments

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

"And it only proves the old saw that many suicides are surrounded by people who loved them - they just couldn't sense it."

Very sad as his son found him.

I think too many years of substance abuse did him in if not physically, mentally.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

HST was apparently growing physically incapacitated due to injuries and chronic pain from other sources. A man of his nature wouldn't do well in a wheelchair and zoned out on morphine.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Who would....

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Are now in the same place...

But do you mean up there, or down there?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I would suspect that's the source of a lot of arguing between them right now.

Me? I haven't a clue and don't have the authority to decide.