/lit/ - Literature

>>11133673
No if it anything it shows e believed what he preached. To be free and do what you want with your life

no

yes
all suicides go to hell for spurning God's greatest creation and their works ought to be banned for being the corrosive evil that they are

It was out of frustration, not depression

>>11133673
Why would it invalidate his works? That's a pretty bold claim

>>11133673
No, but this man who an heroed invalidated his.

>>11133791
Indeed. His cahracter, "Conan the Barabarian" languishes in obscurity, his name only mentioned by scholars of pulp esoterica.

>>11133735
tfw Christ is in hell

>>11133673
>suicided

>>11133735
He was a drug user anyway, he was destined for hell to begin with.

>>11133879
“Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?”

>>11133673
He wrote about politics and culture, not how to love life, so its seems irrelevant.

>>11133735
Which verse of the Bible says that?

>>11133801
based

>>11134945
it follows from that life is a gift from god and to take one's life is to reject that gift. not to mention that suicide, being self-murder, is a kind of murder. you are not to do harm, and that includes yourself

also

>Which verse of the Bible says that?
the bible is a collection of texts from different genres: it is not a list of dos and don'ts

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>>11133673

AUTHOR SUICIDES RATED
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>Ernest Hemingway - C
He was ill, he was depressed. He'd written his best stuff. We don't think too badly of him.

>Yukio Mishima - C+
Shows he was sincere. Sadly, it was also a bit lame and ridiculous. It achieved nothing.

>Sylvia Plath - D-
Pure selfishness - she had children to take care of. Plus a certain school of screeching misandrists have never ever ever shut up about it for one second ever since.

>Hunter S. Thompson - C
He didn't deprive us of any great works; it passes the Mishima Sincerity Test. I don't care one way or the other T.B.H.

>Virginia Woolf - A
Best thing she ever did, if woefully overdue.

>Seneca - A
OK, he was ordered to do it. But, like Erwin Rommel, he did it with dignity. Respect.

>David Foster What'sHisName - C-
Why, exactly? No-one really knows. Way to not make a clear statement, dude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laamYjSwcHI

>>11133673
This man molested children, does this invalidate all of his works?

No. The argument against the Donatists applies equally well to artists as it does to priests.

>>11133673
no. HST died like he lived. On his own terms.
It was sad, but if you think about it, it's the only way he could have died. If anything, it completely validates what he said.
Can you imagine him being some wrinkly asshole, being found half naked in a pool of his own vomit? Or just dying of heart failure in a hospital somewhere?
Some people need to die in certain ways, or it just hurts. Shotgun suicide was HST's way to die.

>>11136008

"Some die too early; some too late. I say, DIE AT THE RIGHT TIME!"

Good old Moustache Man.

>>11133673
no, he did it on purpose and not out of desperation.

>>11136014
mfw mister wakanda was quoting the neetch

>>11136016
>not out of desperation
Wrong. Read his son's memoir. In his later years he suffered regular seizures, incontinence, could barely walk and was eventually confined to a wheelchair, couldn't write because his brain was so burnt out from booze and cocaine. He was a wreck whose lifestyle caught up with him in a big way and he couldn't handle it. And so he died.

>>11133791
I feel sorry for him

>>11135878
Genuinely a good post.

Jesus Christ, I didn’t want this feel.

>>11135878
>Virginia Woolf - A
>Best thing she ever did, if woefully overdue.
Fuck off, fascist

>>11136186
I can't begrudge a man who knows when to die.

So did Jesus, does that invalidate his work?

>>11133673
I don't give a damn if an author killed himself. That doesn't change their writing.

>>11135878
>forgetting about Mainländer who hanged himself standing on a pile of his freshly pressed books

A++

>>11136186
Rest In Peace, you glorious son of a bitch