# Hunter S. Thompson's Quasi-Suicide Note **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676 "2005-09-08T17:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/1 "2005-09-08T17:16:02Z")
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050908/ap\_en\_ot/people\_thompson](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050908/ap_en_ot/people_thompson) I think if he knew it would be published he’d have done it differently. But here’s part of the last communique we have from the gonzo journalist. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/2 "2005-09-08T17:18:56Z")
As free form poetry, not bad. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/3 "2025-10-02T22:54:45Z")
And now, twenty years later: > **[Hunter S Thompson’s death to be reviewed more than 20 years later](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/01/hunter-s-thompsons-death-reviewed)** > > Journalist and author’s wife requested ‘fresh look’ from Colorado bureau of investigation, after his death was ruled a suicide in 2005 Strange. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/4 "2025-10-03T00:35:08Z")
Hmm the link is not working for me. What does the note say? ETA: never mind, the link is twenty years old ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/5 "2025-10-03T01:27:09Z")
IIRC. he shot himself while on the phone with his wife. And in front of him was his typewriter with those notes. Unless it’s something about insurance indemnity or other property ownership, I see no there there. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/6 "2025-10-03T01:32:56Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Hmm the link is not working for me. What does the note say? _Football Season Is Over_ No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won’t hurt. At the bottom of the page, it is said, he drew a _happy heart_. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/7 "2025-10-03T01:45:27Z")
Does anyone really doubt this is a suicide note? I mean, his wife apparently. But come on. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/8 "2026-01-24T02:27:07Z")
> **[Review confirms journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 2005 death was a suicide](https://apnews.com/article/hunter-thompson-death-suicide-investigation-822157ef1079bbcd8419254a5c03ea73)** > > Investigators in Colorado say they have confirmed that the 2005 shooting death of journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/9 "2026-01-24T14:56:59Z")
We could use a man like him today. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/10 "2026-01-24T16:53:50Z")
And at his funeral his ashes got shot out of a cannon. Talk about going out with a bang. My favorite “interview” with Hunter is from the movie _Anthem: An American Road Story_, where fledgling documentarians [Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn pay him an impromptu visit](https://youtu.be/uq3ipEUIhoQ?si=ohRFjAan0usBOg3U&t=3151). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/11 "2026-01-24T17:10:58Z")
Wrong thread. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/12 "2026-01-24T18:54:02Z")
I always loved this segment where [Hunter interviewed Keith Richards](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrnIqGQGqd8) for ABC. When he gets to Keith’s hotel room door, Hunter plays an audio recording of pigs being castrated, and Keith opens the door with some kind of stungun in hand. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/13 "2026-01-25T00:59:20Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > My favorite “interview” with Hunter is from the movie _Anthem: An American Road Story_, where fledgling documentarians [Shainee Gabel and Kristin Hahn pay him an impromptu visit](https://youtu.be/uq3ipEUIhoQ?si=ohRFjAan0usBOg3U&t=3151). If you like that, check out the companion book that covers a lot of interaction that didn’t get filmed. Anyway, HST was good friends with Warren Zevon, who died of cancer in 2003. And there’s a quiet but persistent rumor about that. Some say that when WZ had had enough, he final-exited himself. HST had visited several times during WZ’s illness, and the story has it that HST left a break-glass-in-emergency packet of heroin (some accounts say morphine), and after his album was released and his grandsons were born, WZ calmly and deliberately rang down the curtain and joined the tour invisible. Again, rumor, so don’t go repeating it as fact. But I’ve heard it more than once, and it is plausible. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2026, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/14 "2026-01-25T01:42:58Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > If you like that, check out the companion book that covers a lot of interaction that didn’t get filmed. I read the book when it first came out. I just recently bought a used copy and was delighted to see it was autographed (“Esther --Take a ride! Love, Shainee & Kristin”). The people they meet have a lot of optimism and hope for the future of America…reading it today is a somewhat bittersweet experience. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-s-thompsons-quasi-suicide-note/320676/15 "2026-01-26T23:39:05Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > We could use a man like him today. Aye aye aye,