{"id":621,"date":"2005-02-21T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=621"},"modified":"2005-02-21T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T12:54:00","slug":"accidental-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2005-02\/621-accidental-suicide","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the news that <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=71000001&#038;refer=us&#038;sid=aufWFanttF00\">Hunter S. Thompson has committed suicide<\/a>, I started thinking of other famous writers who have committed suicide. &#8220;Papa&#8221; Hemingway was the only one who came to mind, so I did a quick web search for &#8220;writer suicide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This guy who has a page of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.corsinet.com\/braincandy\/dying3.html\">Famous Suicide Notes<\/a> lists a few as &#8220;<b>ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE<\/b>&#8220;. How can you <b>ACCIDENTALLY<\/b> commit suicide? Isn&#8217;t the whole point of &#8220;suicide&#8221; the fact that you are <font COLOR=\"RED\"><b>INTENTIONALLY<\/b> taking your own life<\/font>? Sure, you can accidentally kill yourself <i>(as my uncle did!)<\/i> but that doesn&#8217;t make it &#8220;suicide&#8221;. Does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I read the news that Hunter S. Thompson has committed suicide, I started thinking of other famous writers who have committed suicide. &#8220;Papa&#8221; Hemingway was the only one who came to mind, so I did a quick web search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2005-02\/621-accidental-suicide\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}