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Richard Bey
07-28-07, 07:16 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers_who_committed_suicide


3 of my favorites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_kerouac

True Power
08-19-07, 09:26 PM
Hemingway committed suicide also.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

kiddyn0mite
08-20-07, 01:05 AM
Hemingway committed suicide also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Yea he did, he's one of my favorite writers....

I remember my freshman year of college, I took a psychology class, and it had a whole chapter devoted to writers/philosophers etc. who committed suicide...

Altar K. Shun
08-20-07, 01:00 PM
Poet Sylvia Plath:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_plath

angel_baby
09-13-07, 09:52 AM
Hunter S Thompson is my fav author by far.. It always leaves me wondering if drugs/instability help in creating "art"...

Tetris v2.0
09-13-07, 03:50 PM
Hunter S Thompson is my fav author by far.. It always leaves me wondering if drugs/instability help in creating "art"...
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"

Stephano DiMera
09-14-07, 02:15 AM
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me"


I really enjoyed The Generation of Swine from Thompson. That dude was an absolute maniac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-N4_tQ1R8

Cutchaup
01-15-08, 04:01 AM
:weirdo: