WHO KILLED HUNTER S. THOMPSON?????

Yes, I have read how he supposedly committed suicide due to depression in the family home, whilst his wife was on the phone to him. I have read how he had been suffering from a painful back injury and required prescription painkillers.

I have also read between the lines.

I believe Hunter S. Thompson was killed because he was a dangerous man to certain people high up in establishment. Like David Kelly before him, Hunter's death has been made to look like suicide.

Hunter S. Thompson loved his country. He was proud to be an American. He was so proud that he even stood for election. He genuinely cared about the future of his fellow man in the Country in which he resided.

By the end, Hunter hated America. He despised what it had become. He wrote countless accounts of how the country was aiming for world domination, he wrote of the corruption in the higher ranks, and could see the bullshit all around him, as visibly as he could see his own nose.

I cannot accept that a man who went through so much in the 60's and 70's, and by that I mean pain. Taking heavy quantities of LSD and other drugs is no mean feat. I myself know of the painful journey a large dose of Lysergic acid dythemalide 25 can do on the psyche. I have witnessed the terrible reality of hell in all its glory. The demons that laughed hysterically whilst I vomitted the last of the Amanita mushroom seven hours into one of many journey's to hell. Struggling to make sense when you can no longer tell if you are breathing or not, cannot tell the difference between pleasure and pain, have no concept of hunger or tiredness, with each yawn descending ever closer to meeting Morningstar himself decorated in the brightest, and purest amber fire jewellery with his eyes ablaze waiting to consume your every thought. I have been lost in the woods surrounded by baby birds in nests with their beaks cracking and breaking with every step, faced with a sea of alligators languishing amongst the windswept long grasses. I have been followed by Judge Death face appearing in every crevice in every piece of tree bark, I have watched my own face melt and drip onto the floor and then I have been Buddha and had all around me worship the ground I walk.

Now do not tell me that a man who has been through this kind of hell (and heaven). Witnessed and been part of more than a few adventure towards eternal damnation is going to kill himself, whilst still in his writing prime, because of a sore back?!? I do not accept it.

A hitman can be in and out in a matter of seconds. They can make any death appear to look like suicide, and then disappear without trace.

Hunter S. Thompson's wife was on the phone to him when she heard the receiver go down, and then a muffled sound, before all went quiet. Hunter was found by his son with a bullet in his head in the kitchen. They were also in the house.

Does that not sound like a very selfish, very thoughtless and uncharacteristic way to end your infamous life? If his life became so unbearable he would have stated something more specific on the telephone to his wife. She had no idea that the sound she heard was a gunshot. If he really wanted to kill himself, I believe he wouldv'e gone somewhere more secluded, or even a hotel room where a stranger could find his dead body, not his children and grandchildren!

If you are going to sneak up on someone to kill them, do it when they are otherwise distracted i.e on the telephone. The hitman grabbed him from behind, smothered his mouth, then shot him at point blank range, execution style. That is what I believe happened.

Anita Thompson, his widow, claims that Hunter talked about suicide in the months prior to his death. I do not deny that Hunter S. Thompson was depressed. The country that he loved has gone to shit, and I feel he felt he was becoming an ever decreasing ripple in the ever increasing ocean of authors in the world. His word was not being heard.

Every day, as part of my work, I have to assess and plan the care of many people with depression and suicidal ideation. I know how common it is for people to talk of wanting to kill themselves and how many actually do. I understand and can differentiate between those people who talk about a need to enter a big sleep and wake up when all their problems have gone, and those who fantasise in tremendous detail about how they can make their final minutes as final as possible. There is something about the details of Hunter S. Thompson's behaviour in his last few months that doesn't match his demise.

I believe as a writer, and a brilliant writer at that, he was predisposed to certain weaknesses intrisically woven into his destiny. He was also getting old. These two factors alone set about a chain of events in Hunter's head that resulted in him becoming intrigued by death and with that comes a question..."how will I die?"

This is a common trait in elderly men and women. The twilight years bring with them a certain clarity retained only for the older and wiser. The true dawning and realisation that this beautiful world we live in with soon be no more. The end of the world is coming for someone at all times of every day.

Suicide solution. "He wanted to leave on top of his game." Yes, I have no doubt about that statement. Hunter S. Thompson wanted to be a legend. What else is there to hope for when this mortal life is escaping us? To live on in the hearts and minds of others after you have died.
Is that a reason to kill yourself in the kitchen, whilst talking to your wife on the phone with the chance of your little grandson walking in at any moment???? I don't think so!


Toronto Globe and Mail February 26, 2005

"Hunter telephoned me on Feb. 19, the night before his death. He sounded scared. It wasn't always easy to understand what he said, particularly over the phone, he mumbled, yet when there was something he really wanted you to understand, you did. He'd been working on a story about the World Trade Center attacks and had stumbled across what he felt was hard evidence showing the towers had been brought down not by the airplanes that flew into them but by explosive charges set off in their foundations. Now he thought someone was out to stop him publishing it: "They're gonna make it look like suicide," he said. "I know how these bastards think . . ."

Shortly after this statement was released the story changed. The 'official' story now, is that Hunter S. Thompson was sitting at his typewriter in his study when he died.
I smell a fish of the 'kipper' variety. The altering of events, the modification of news stories, the untelling of eye witness accounts....tut tut...someone's telling porkies!

Believe what you want to believe but just keep an open mind.