OFF but ON: Timothy Leary

[Chris and Ginny Sargent]

>On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Jerry wrote:
>
>> Wylie wrote:
>>
>> >  Today the world lost a great visionary, a mind that grasped realities
>> >which most of us cannot imagine, let alone experience.  May he relish
>> >the ultimate trip.  This day I mourn.
>>
>> Didn't he say (first week of May) that he wanted to commit suicide by taking
>> an overdose on something? The whole event had to be video taped and
>> broadcast on tv and internet. I guess this did not happen?
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>He was intending to commit suicide "on-line", and has had a web page for
>some time (http\\:www.leary.org? something like that).  He died in his
>sleep, and his last words were pretty interesting . . .

        "Why not" and "Yeah" were his last words.... You find them
interesting???

        His dying was videotaped accorrding to my local paper Boston Globe)
but they weren't sure if the video would show up on the web or not.

                                        Chris