HST family sat at a table with him dead with massive head wound.

[MikeG]

Does this bother any of you?

It creeps me out.

One thing bad about a stunt like this, after it's over, you're still DEAD.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/state/article/0,1299,DRMN_21_3575306,00.html

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.

[no name no slogan]

1. Gotta sit somewhere (n/t)

[Shakespeare]

2. Yeah, but....

It creeps me out to the extreme. But then again, I would imagine that HST's family, after living with/around the man for years, might have a higher squeamishness tolerance than most of the rest of us.

[Bunny]

3. Yeah, that's a little weird.

But with HST involved, it seems almost normal, in a way.

[MikeG]

5. This whole thing bothers me, and I don't find any good in it.

As you may remember from Monday.

[Bunny]

10. I do remember, and I am sorry for the nasty things I said, Mike.

You were hurting because of your personal experience with it. I can relate - I have three cousins who committed suicide, and a fourth one who tried but didn't "succeed". It's a terrible thing for the ones who are left behind.

[MikeG]

15. I should have been subtler in the original message on Monday.

I deserved some of it.

[Mandate My Ass]

4. "Hours earlier" is the operative clause here

Last I checked coroners don't leave corpses in the house for the family to party with.

[tmooses]

11. Right..Something does not ring true with this story. Not sure what..

is behind it or if it matters-but it does not make sense.

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. Depends on the cause of death. When my mother passed last month

I wanted to go right to my dad to be with him, but he wouldn't let me and the kids come down because he thought they would be too upset with Amma still on the floor (and later on the couch) waiting for the funeral home to come and get her.

It was several hours before she was taken away.

Editing to add that in years gone by we all would have sat with her a for a couple of days to "watch" her. That was the custom to be sure folks were really gone and not in a coma they might come out of.

[freebird1]

6. ~ love transcends even death~

[Modem Butterfly]

7. My next door neighbor committed suicide while his wife was out

I was seventeen and discovered the body when I came by their house (his wife was my music teacher and, in a small town, everyone left their doors unlocked). I remember feeling profound sadness and shock, but not disgust, at the sight. Don't get me wrong, it was gross, but I remember thinking of it as being Jim, not just blood and gore. When his body was removed, my parents and I helped his wife and her mother clean up. My mother never could stand the sight of blood and couldn't handle it. His wife was a nurse, and she was very matter-of-fact about it. I suspect now, years later, that she knew he was going to do it. She apologized to me very profoundly for having to find the body. I don't think that was part of the plan.

Anyway, I suspect that something similar was going on here- the family didn't think of it as being a dead body, it was their husband and father.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. He was gone. The body had been removed. The OP didn't read

the paragraph he posted correctly.

[Modem Butterfly]

12. I read the article

His wife describes hugging his body and rubbing his legs. Certainly she had time to be alone with his body after he was gone. Profound grief causes you to do the darndest things.

[BeTheChange]

9. I dont see how it's any different then a wake..

Infact, wakes are infinately more creepy to me. You truss the embalming fluid filled body up, put garish makeup on them, stick them in a casket and surround them with floral displays.

Supposedly HST used a 45 calliber. I can imagine him giving it alot of thought. .22, leaves room for error, anything higher then a 45 blasts your brains all over the place. I dont think they say around and had a drink while his brains dripped out of a hole where his face used to be. This wasnt an act of desperation. It was a preplanned act to choose his own terms.

[KoKo]

13. They had only been married for two years, and she's 32 years old?

Well....if you read a lot of mysteries you could have some other ideas about this. His son and grandson are in the "compound." Where's the "daughter-in-law?" Thompson and Anita had just had an argument and she storms off to the gym. She gets a call with a click but doesn't know if that was when he shot himself.

look...she's probably a wonderful person, and he couldn't have been easy to live with, but this really sounds bizarre.

RIP HST...

[Sweet Pea]

14. Sick

n/t

[chickenscratching]

16. this thread is totally misleading ja?

mikeg you should edit this threads title! i know you probably just misread the article, but its incorrect nonetheless.

[Mandate My Ass]

17. Yeah but why be honest when you can be judgmental and petty?

Patting oneself on the back while slandering a dead man is something some people obviously can't resist. :eyes:

[chickenscratching]

19. right

and more people will look at my post if i have a blasphemous title imposed upon it.

[Coventina]

20. Everybody handles shock and grief differently

After what I went through with my mother, I know that I'm in no position to judge what others do.

[Karenina]

21. Somebody needs to get himself

a HOBBY. Something healthy, like gardening or water-skiing... :shrug: