Vacillating between being alright and not ok at all with HST’s passing. The feeling would be the same even had he died of natural causes. D summed it up well last night, “It feels like I’ve lost a member of MY team.”
The remembrance turned into a discussion on suicide once the end is near anyways. There is dignity to taking oneself out of the picture while still possessing the ability to, say, pee on one’s own. We already understood this, but continue to be shattered by the brutal honesty that such a death entails.
In the end, he wasn’t answerable to anyone. The beauty of life is that it doesn’t always revolve around you.
the weird gets gone
God I hope it’s untrue in all ways
I think it is okay for people to commit suicide
they do not intend to inflict anything on the world
it is a wholly private gesture
It is a wholly mean one too but ONLY because it takes place in the context of a society that doesn’t condone it
I believe human beings are of God’s creation but Man’s Disposal. what could be more free will??? Mankind should not be constrained to live out a life warehoused for the good of others; were this truth well accepted,
perhaps no one would ever NEED to TAKE that most ultimate in selfishness
gestures
Allowing suicide in a society actually supports people understanding their self worth, which leads to them not living lives of selfish desperation
I think when we accept it that way we can live in the celebration of the weirdness that was the Doctor of Gonzo Journalism and not the how dare he, why did he etc.
We can just say
Go in peace my brother
As I told Bugs earlier, I wasn’t shocked by what he did, but I’d always assumed Hunter, Keith Richards and cockroaches would outlast us all.
I dunno…it seems to me likely that he finally noticed that his recent writing has been more and more regurgitation of what he has written better ten or fifteen years ago. Bound to be an unacceptable state of being for a guy like him…one can only hope that he scared all holy hell out of the damned peacocks when he went…RIP.
He lived in a different world. . .perhaps a different universe.
How many people do you know who never considered suicide?