ASPEN — Hunter S. Thompson heard the ice clinking.
'Loving' farewell to writer
Wife details family gathering with Thompson dead in chair
By Jeff Kass, © 2005, Rocky Mountain NewsFebruary 25, 2005
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. But a small circle of family and friends gathered around with stories, as he wished, with glasses full of his favored elixir — Chivas Regal on ice.
Click on the title to link to this strange story in The Rocky Mountain News. /jack
1 comment:
Only Hunter and the Man Upstairs, know why he would feel the need to take his own life and leave his family behind.
I just hope that He makes room for the old boy in Heaven. If only Hunter could write a book about that trip...Would be a great,
Godspeed.
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