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28/02/2005
Thompson shot himself on phone to wife
Anita Thompson, the widow of American writer Hunter S Thompson, heard the trigger on his gun click while on the phone to him immediately before his suicide.
According to an interview with Anita Thompson in the Aspen Daily News the 67-year-old author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas asked his wife on the phone to come home and help him with his weekly column for a sports website.
The 32-year-old widow, who married Thompson in April 2003, was working out at a fitness center.
"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it - I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita said.
She told the newspaper that she heard a loud, muffled noise in the background, but did not know what had happened.
"I was waiting for him to get back on the phone," she said.
Mrs Thompson said that her husband had frequently talked about killing himself in recent months, putting an intense strain on their relationship.
"He wanted to leave on top of his game - I wish I could have been more supportive of his decision, it was a problem for us," she added.
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