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Wow. Suicide rate, statistically, amoung writers, most especially poets, is notoriously high. I'm sorry that we will have no more work from Hunter S. Thompson. Hope he does whatever one can do that's genius in the Great Beyond.....

R.I.P, dude. You're amoung so many.

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A quick quote from Mr. Thompson on the music industry. True then and true now:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

He shot himself with his 6 year old grandson in the house. What an asshole. Go rot.