Kurt Vonnegut died today at the age of 84. He never recovered from head injuries suffered in a fall in his home in New York. He wrote the amazing Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle. His eight rules for writers are widely published. (see next post)Vonnegut once said that of all the ways to die, he'd prefer to go out in an airplane crash on the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. He often joked about the difficulties of old age.
"When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon," Vonnegut said in 2005.
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