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
Only Hunter and the Man Upstairs, know why he would feel the need to take his own life and leave his family behind.
ReplyDeleteI 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.