Anyone can leave this life any way they damn choose, it's a free country. But as much a human train-wreck/miracle as Thompson was, if the Fates have gifted you with as much intellectual and political power as he had and you bail, you're abandoning a holy calling. He pussed out.
Hunter went his way and he wouldn't have had it any other. His entire life's work should have made that clear.
No one would have called HST a coward when he was alive, why is it ok to call him that simply because he chose his own path out..?
@LocalStain amen!
Anyone can leave this life any way they damn choose, it's a free country. But as much a human train-wreck/miracle as Thompson was, if the Fates have gifted you with as much intellectual and political power as he had and you bail, you're abandoning a holy calling. He pussed out.
My POV.
YMMV.