RIP: Hunter S Thompson

One of my great heros has taken his own life. Farewell to the good Doctor. - I cannot think of anyone's death in recent memory that has struck me such. :\ - RIP - HST

"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself. Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"-Hunter S. Thompson, age 17

One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

It is from the bystanders that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of youth must he laid aside for a life which is but a painful wait for death ...These are the menwho dream at night of what could have been, but who wake at dawn to take their places at the now- familiar rut and to merely exist through another day. For them, the romance of life is long dead and they are forced to go through the years on a treadmill, cursing their existence, yet afraid to die because of the unknown which faces them after death. They lacked the only true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences.

The decision to flee came suddenly. Or maybe not. Maybe I had planned it all along, subconsciously waiting for the right moment.

I am going to miss that true grit. Hunter was a guide. A true warrior equipped with the skills of understanding that would have killed a normal man much faster. He has taught me about truth, justice, corruption, depravity, loneliness, love, and shiat the list could go on forever.. Above all he taught me Freedom. The perfect example of unbridled freedom. A man who never stopped TRULY living life for one moment, constantly expanding (more like utterly annihilating) the boundaries of thought and literature. Hunter will be missed. His guidance will have to come elsewhere, from the spirit he has instilled in all of those who have ever read and appreciated his work. His character seems so clear in my mind, I can almost see how he'd react to this news had he read it himself, though I'll hardly get into that here. His life exists for all of us to view and appreciate. He is immortal. Appropriately, this may have been his final spoof to us all. He'll never die, and we're damn fools who deserve to be publically humiliated for thinking such ridiculous things.