>40 year career as a published writer >somehow broke at 68 >kills himself How does this even happen
what zero (0) pussy does to a mf
i am also writing
>>25594421>howspending too much $$not enough saving $$
>>25594421A) writing pays like shitB) IIRC his long term boyfriend just died
were you somehow under the impression that being a published writer meant that you were rich or something?
>>25594421He was so good.
>>25594421>His medical expenses from chronic health conditions (including severe diabetes and sciatica) combined with the extensive cancer treatments for his longtime partner, Charles Naylor (who passed away in 2005), entirely drained his savings.
>>25594421It's kinda funny how people don't know how to live without money, while some thrive without any. Go to any major US city and you'll find people with zero dollars and they still make it through each day. Take most of a rich guy's money away and they immediately resort to suicide.
>>25594421Turns out managing your finances isn't only for boring normal people.
>>25594873Those people usually get really good at either stealing or convincing others to give them free shit, credit where it's due
>>25594421This guy's last book looks like absolute delirium.>The Word of God>Thomas Disch
>>25594964Norman Spinrad's review of the book is a masterwork.
>>25594846>expensive medical treatments for sciaticaholy fucking kek
>>25594928to be fair food and shelter were both pretty much free and easy to obtain in the wild
He offed himself because his gay lover died.
>>25594873in any major city it is easy to live if you have no money. it is much harder to live if you are an average working person.
>>25594421I mean, his expression right here already kinda tells me he had given up by that point
>>25594979as someone with chronic low back pain/sciatica, it gets a lot worse than your leg hurting due to the bulging disc. that kind of pain compells you to look for any alternative, even if it's opiates or surgery/treatments you can't afford. until i had back surgery there were some days i couldn't walk, and the days that i could i had to use a cane. i'd never kill myself over back pain, but there are times when it crossed my mind.
>>25595036I felt that way for a period of time when I had neck pain, like I was crippled and it didn't make any sense why it was so bad. You can fix yourself with exercise to a large degree even if you have a bulging disc. Doctors offer surgery because it's convenient for them.
>>25594421He finally realized that sticking your body parts into another man's poophole is kinda gross and died from the ick
>>25594421The machine is closing in.Rent for living on Capitalist-Zionist land comes for us all.The man didn't want to spend his last days on the streets, and he couldn't see himself trying to find a target or two to shoot before they shoot back.The machine is everywhere. And everywhere are it's drone, zombies, the vampires, right there to protect it from anyone trying to start the dismantling process. Look at some of these posts! "Should have managed his finances better" Stupid devotees of Mammon. "WAKE THE FUCK UP! WAKE THE FUCK UP!"See? No one will listen. Mark Fish didn't want to feed it anymore either.Should I choose the streets instead then? I'm getting as late in years as this guy.
He sounds like an assholeDisch trashed friends, allies, and enemies alike. He heaped praise on Philip Dick, in spite of those letters to the FBI, but also chortled (in a blog post), "May he rot in hell, and may his royalties corrupt his heirs to the seventh generation." In the same forum, he gleefully published an account of how—and why—he successfully blocked the re-publication of Samuel Delany's The American Shore. "Chip [Delany's nickname] once pursued me all about a Boston hotel whining to be understood. I can understand his distress. It's his most ambitious work of criticism. And it will never be reprinted in his lifetime." He wrote a scathing review of a Ray Bradbury book in the New York Times—"Which more or less amounts to crucifying Jesus," said Alice Turner. After this review, he never received another assignment from the Times.https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/articles/who-killed-thomas-m-disch/
