Hunter Thompson Kills Himself

It's been a year full of bad deaths so far, hasn't it?
RIP 1937-2005

It seems like many journalistic literary writers end up not too happy. At least it adds to the legend. Would there be any irony in Hemingway if never shot himself (or was a drunk, for that matter)? It seemed like Keroauc went downhill from the minute he finished writing an ode to life. All of the Romantic poets had long periods of miserable depression at some point (like Coleridge's lifelong opium addiction). They all did have a prophetic vision; so they had that going for them.