If suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness....

....then this is the penultimate act of selfishness.

The widow of journalist Hunter S. Thompson said her husband killed himself while the two were talking on the phone.

"I was on the phone with him, he set the receiver down and he did it. I heard the clicking of the gun," Anita Thompson told the Aspen Daily News in Friday's editions.

No matter what he may have accomplished in life, Hunter Thompson's death negates it all.