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Kurt Vonnegut had attempted suicide at some point.

Hunter S. Thompson killed himself. (He was 67). His suicide note: "No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt"

I'll probably think of more, creative people almost always suffer from some mental ailment, particularly depression.

p.s. @Kirby: I heart Wikipedia, its so handy. If I really need to get reliable information, I'll usually look there first and then compare it with some other random sources. I have yet to notice anything on Wikipedia that is really inaccurate, plus it tells you when an article is missing sources or may have discrepancies in the data. It is a pretty well self-moderated site I think. People take the fact that its open source as definite proof that everything on there is completely made up, and thats kind of stupid. (Yes I know I'm replying to an old post, whatever)

Heh, well some people do. Like just mentioning Wikipedia sets them on a rampage about how inaccurate it is, especially teachers who can barely use a computer anyway.

Side note on stupid teachers: I laugh every time I see one of my teachers, who has a doctorate (I don't know what in), struggling to figure out the DVD player when my class is going to watch a movie. One of the students usually has to go up and help him... its not just him though, all except for a few teachers are able to understand that all they have to do is put the movie in and press the play button. 0_o

I'm in a rant mood today... sweatdrop

xp Its soo true.

Another note on that, my mom who was taking college courses online just recently (had me at like 18-19, so wasn't able to get a college education until now), was unable to figure out how to find the Square Root of a number on my TI-83 calculator, even after I showed her at least 10 times: "You press the 2nd button, then this button, put your number in and voila". scream

Oh and both of my parents always look at me like I am speaking some alien tongue when I try to explain that they should use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, or Gmail instead of Hotmail and such. Which is weird considering both of them have to use computers a lot of the time for their respective jobs. neutral