[nervosa]

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nypost.com - Bizarre last writes for suicide man said:

A New York native shot himself to death in Harvard Yard last week -- after penning an epic 1,905-page suicide note.

Mitchell Heisman, 35, quoted Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Einstein as he attempted to explain his motives in the rambling missive, which included a lengthy preface and 1,433 footnotes.

Heisman put the encyclopedia-sized note online and asked that the Web page be kept up after his death, so that everyone could know his feelings about life and the universe.

Note can be view at www.suicidenote.info

[Corrderio]

TL;DR?

[Aleera]

If I was gonna write a suicide note that long it had better be a damn autobiography.

Also, when I'm dead, I'm either gonna get cremated and have my ashes baked into pot brownies which will be handed out at my funeral without anyone knowing and only told afterward when everyone's high, or frozen in carbonite. I can't decide which.

[MrReinhardt]

No way anyone can top Hunter S. Thompson's funeral.

[Velhart]

Aleera, on 29 September 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

If I was gonna write a suicide note that long it had better be a damn autobiography.

Also, when I'm dead, I'm either gonna get cremated and have my ashes baked into pot brownies which will be handed out at my funeral without anyone knowing and only told afterward when everyone's high, or frozen in carbonite. I can't decide which.

I would do that, the problem is, people would still be eating me to absorb all of the awesomeness I have.

[Claire_Pendragon]

This is actually quite interesting so far.

I have ALLOT to read, and not done, so if the following is proven wrong later, oh well too bad.

None of which i haven't already thought of on my own, but the more interesting point of it, is basically;
He didn't kill himself out of insanity or other common reasons.
He killed himself both out of knowing it will bring attention to these subjects, and unlike people who think live HAS to be lived, knew it didnt matter of he lived or not...
the only downside to this method, is the act of suicide made it seem important these subjects HAD to be discussed. (which will eventually be argued against the message he left behind)

[Tikki]

MrReinhardt, on 29 September 2010 - 02:38 PM, said:

No way anyone can top Hunter S. Thompson's funeral.

On August 20, 2005, in a private ceremony, Thompson's ashes were fired from a cannon atop a 153-foot (47 m) tower of his own design (in the shape of a double-thumbed fist clutching a peyote button) to the tune of Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky" and Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man. Red, white, blue, and green fireworks were launched along with his ashes. As the city of Aspen would not allow the cannon to remain for more than a month, the cannon has been dismantled and put into storage until a suitable permanent location can be found. According to his widow Anita, Thompson's funeral was financed by actor Johnny Depp, a close friend of Thompson. Depp told the Associated Press, "All I'm doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out."




Yep, ain't noone ever topping that awesome fucker.

[Wildstriker]

Read a good part of this. This is why philosophy isn't for the mentally unstable.


It's sad too because I actually enjoyed reading a lot of it. It was interesting, even if his "unbelief" in viviocentrism was erected on rather shaky logical grounds.

This post has been edited by Wildstriker: 29 September 2010 - 04:09 PM

[treelo]

I'm not reading it, just so his gesture will remain futile and pointless.

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unlike people who think live HAS to be lived, knew it didnt matter of he lived or not...
the only downside to this method, is the act of suicide made it seem important these subjects HAD to be discussed. (which will eventually be argued against the message he left behind)

Also because this dozy fuck agrees with him.

[Wildstriker]

Claire_Pendragon, on 29 September 2010 - 03:24 PM, said:

This is actually quite interesting so far.

I have ALLOT to read, and not done, so if the following is proven wrong later, oh well too bad.

None of which i haven't already thought of on my own, but the more interesting point of it, is basically;
He didn't kill himself out of insanity or other common reasons.
He killed himself both out of knowing it will bring attention to these subjects, and unlike people who think live HAS to be lived, knew it didnt matter of he lived or not...
the only downside to this method, is the act of suicide made it seem important these subjects HAD to be discussed. (which will eventually be argued against the message he left behind)

This is why idiots should be banned from philosophy, since a true philosopher knows the impracticality of applying that shit in real life. I am appealing to an intuitive sense of 'insanity', so forgive me, but just as it would be insane for a metaphysicist to declare out loud, via Leibniz's law of identity, that he ceased to exist the moment he cut his hair, it should also be insane to carry out nihilism to its logical conclusion.

[Kenshiro]

I thought nihilism ended when you finish high school.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Nihilism isn't about 'life has no meaning, so i should just end my life'
that would be to argue there is a correct answer of what to do.

that's the stereotype applied to it, which is why i hate when things like this happen. it just gives off the wrong impression.

Nihilism has no meaning, or 'answer' just things are.
You can continue as is. its your choice.
Being Nihilistic or not, doesn't change the fact no matter how much u try to stay alive, ur going to die.

So stereotyping Nihilism leads to death, only causes more ppl to misunderstand it.

[Kenshiro]

You are roughly describing existentialism. Nihilism carries the absurdist fuckitall baggage.

edit: The again, we can argue that statement all week. I'm so over this shit. My path in philosophy has already landed me in mathematics and symbolic logic(more math). WITTGENSTEIN MOTHERFUCKER etc

This post has been edited by Kenshiro: 29 September 2010 - 07:53 PM

[Metticus]

I say you dont exist ken.

[Banter]

Aleera, on 29 September 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

If I was gonna write a suicide note that long it had better be a damn autobiography.

Also, when I'm dead, I'm either gonna get cremated and have my ashes baked into pot brownies which will be handed out at my funeral without anyone knowing and only told afterward when everyone's high, or frozen in carbonite. I can't decide which.

Jokes are better when they're not ripped off of someone else.

[Aleera]

Who exactly did I rip off? 'Cause I haven't heard that before.

Edit: You would know about ripping off, when you've ripped off a meme for a lame signature.

This post has been edited by Aleera: 29 September 2010 - 10:23 PM

[-Kaine-]

It seems like he was planning to kill himself since long time.. you don't write down bibles in a day or two.. u.u
About the note.. if I were to write down an autobiography with all my feelings towards life and the universe no one would give a s*** about it.. and I'm sure no one would have given one for his if he hadn't decided to become an hero.. so maybe I'm getting this wrong but he wanted to be remembered as the guy who wrote a 1905 page long suicide note..? Or he just thought it this way.. "I write an autobiography then I shoot myself so people will read it and I'll never be forgotten.. although I'll be dead by that time... but oh well you can't have everything..! -u.u-", if you want to leave back your thoughts and feelings you wait to die naturally, not give you a good dose of lead up your head.. -.-
Depressed people should see a psychologist or rather a psychiatrist..

He may have written deep stuff in that note.. I'm not in the mood of reading right now.. but still, suicide is stupid, against self-preservation and offensive to the value of life..

This post has been edited by -Kaine-: 30 September 2010 - 03:18 AM

[Keylime]

If he wanted to be remembered so badly he should have written it in a bite sized volume, went on Oprah, THEN killed himself. Top spot on the NY best seller's list would be assured after that.

Conversely he could have climbed to the top of a tower and dropped multiple copies off the top. The resulting bloodbath would ensure proper notoriety.

[Kenshiro]

-Kaine-, on 30 September 2010 - 03:13 AM, said:

suicide is stupid, against self-preservation and offensive to the value of life..

grow up

[wunder3]

Nihilism is a concept many never seem to understand properly, but it ultimately contradicts itself. I spent most of my sleepless night reading this lol. It's the best thing I've read in a while. It took me back to my under-grad philosophy 101 class. After learning about people like Descartes, my life never been the same lmao! But uhh... philosophy can either destroy or open a creative port for over-active thinkers (i.e. the matrix guys).