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Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture's favorite writer, who shuffled off this mortal coil six months ago by firing a bullet into his drug-addled brain, has finally been laid to rest in an appropriately eccentric style.(The Week ...)(Obituary)

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* Hunter S. Thompson, the counterculture's favorite writer, who shuffled off this mortal coil six months ago by firing a bullet into his drug-addled brain, has finally been laid to rest in an appropriately eccentric style. Thompson's ashes were shot into the sky by a rocket over his Colorado farm, then very effectively scattered with the aid of red, white, and blue fireworks. Among those present for the show was historian Douglas Brinkley, who declared Thompson to have been "the Billy the Kid ...

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