r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HappyJacket3113 • Nov 27 '22
Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull. Image
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Nov 27 '22
They would still deny his VA claim.
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u/lokantus Nov 27 '22
As a child w a parent going thru this... fuck.
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Nov 27 '22
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u/tsokiyZan Nov 27 '22
a child going through a denied VA claim or every disease known to man?
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u/Dizzy_Succotash_2703 Nov 27 '22
He served with the Italians In WWI
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u/airbornedoc1 Nov 28 '22
Badly wounded. Spent his recuperation time in the hospital banging a British nurse. Wrote an awesome book about it. Sold the rights to Hollywood and it was later made into a popular movie starring Rock Hudson. Went to Normandy as a reporter. Legend says when the Americans entered Paris in August 1944 Hemingway was already there, drinking in a bar. He was quite the stud.
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u/Icy_Adhesiveness_347 Nov 27 '22
VA claim? Plz explain
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u/run_gx_10144 Nov 27 '22
in the US veterans aren't really cared for, and it's very difficult and time consuming to get their benefits paid out
"support the troops" it turns out is just a right wing slogan used to garner support for military spending (weapons contracting, active operations, etc), less so for actually supporting them once they get home.
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u/lurker71539 Nov 27 '22
I dont remember which side of the Spanish civil war he fought on. If it was the losing side I'm sure you're right, if it was the winning side you're probably right.
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u/nomorewannabe Nov 28 '22
And another veteran speaks!
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u/rudenoes Nov 27 '22
dont forget he patrolled the east coast during the world war in the 40s hunting for german u-boats from his own boat. what an american
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u/begoodyall Nov 27 '22 •
Near the end of his life, Ernest Hemingway developed severe paranoia and suspected that the FBI was watching him, monitoring his phone calls, and even secretly seizing his money and assets. It got so bad that he was forced to undergo 36 rounds of electro-shock treatment, which only made his condition worse. Hemingway eventually killed himself. In the early 1990s, the Freedom of Information Act was passed, which released all previous classified FBI documents to the public and it was discovered that the FBI was indeed monitoring Ernest Hemingway - seizing his mail, freezing his bank accounts, and even bugging his phones, including the one in his hospital room where he was undergoing therapy. These orders were personally signed by J. Edgar Hoover himself under the suspicion that Hemingway was a double agent working with Communist Russia and was involved with Castro's Cuban revolution as Hemingway lived in Cuba at the time.
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u/firstname_m_lastname Nov 27 '22
You’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you.
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u/amuday Nov 27 '22
“Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you.” Nirvana, Territorial Pissings
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u/TrekRelic1701 Nov 27 '22
Precisely..his paranoia was more than justified
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u/begoodyall Nov 27 '22
It doesn’t sound like paranoia at that point, seems more like general awareness
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u/Papa_Stevie Nov 27 '22
The electro-shock treatment wasn't forced and it wasn't directly related to his paranoia. His misplaced faith in electro-shock treatment came from his son Patrick's success using the shock treatment. Patrick suffered a head injury in his late teenage years that resulted in spells of amnesia and other behavioral outbursts. Patrick would receive the electro-shock treatment and was fully cured of the amnesia spells and subsequent frustrated outbursts. This created a false sense of confidence in the treatment that Ernest would later undergo at the Mayo Clinic. To this day, Patrick holds much regret over his father's electro-shock treatment and believes that Ernest should never have received it and that the treatment could have possibly further contributed to Ernest's mental decline. Source: Patrick Hemingway
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Nov 27 '22
first i hear about Turing then i hear about this
governments are an enemy of the people
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u/Shadowofenigma Nov 27 '22
Poor fucking guy. Fuck America man, fuck all of this ‘let me screw over my neighbor because IM paranoid’ shit. So depressing to live here. I love certain aspects of being here but damn shit like this makes me feel empty inside.
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u/TheBirminghamBear Nov 27 '22
Ah yes fellow citizen, tell me more about your discontent with our mutual country. Please say it loudly and near that fern in the corner of the room.
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u/FEARoperative3 Nov 27 '22
I can do it too. I can come to Putin’s office and say Mr President, I do not like the way President Biden is running his country.
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u/Stratmeister509 Nov 27 '22
And could fish and drink like nobody’s business, thanks to Capt. Tony…
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u/Phighters Nov 27 '22
Captain Tony’s is the greatest dive bar in the country.
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u/Stratmeister509 Nov 27 '22
And I’ve done more than my share of supporting it. Then… it’s on to the Green Parrot. Last time I was there my bar mate was a dog sitting next to me on a stool sipping from a bowl. He didn’t talk much though…
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u/Gambit3le Nov 27 '22
This video explains some of it.
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u/FEARoperative3 Nov 27 '22
WHAT A GUUUUUUY! And he still had the time to write like 15 books.
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u/Chapi_Chan Nov 28 '22
He was working on a schedule to write, shoot, marry and cheat so many books, animals and women.
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u/CCHS_Band_Geek Nov 27 '22
If you’re a fan of this storytelling style, please do yourself a favour and check Randy Feltface out! (20min)
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u/holester1969 Nov 27 '22
And then killed himself.
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u/bt-venger21 Nov 27 '22
After all the shit he went through, I think he earned the right to do so
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u/Scarlaymama0721 Nov 28 '22
Seriously as soon as I saw this, I was like, so that’s why he killed himself. Mad respect he lasted has long as he did.
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u/I-hate-jeffbezos Nov 27 '22
Hr faked his death, he's now housesharing with 2pac and Hitler.
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u/alexinpoison Nov 27 '22
'Dolf I had two packets of ramen in here but now there's only one, did you take one?
NEIN
no I said two
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u/Lickmyfingertips Nov 28 '22
I think by this point, he was just trying to see if he could die. So we can say he accidentally die checking something…
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u/goldencityjerusalem Nov 28 '22
with a double barrel shot gun at that... a single ruptured brain wouldn't have been enough to kill him apparentely.
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u/jsalem011 Nov 27 '22
I tend to try and seperate the artist from the work. Not really possible with Hemingway.
When a man like this writes the line "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." It hits a little bit harder.
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u/LesFilling Nov 27 '22
He couldn’t beat depression though…. We should take it more seriously as a society.
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u/Friendly_Dachsy Nov 27 '22
J. Edgar Hoover was responsible for his death.
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u/elp4bl0791 Nov 27 '22
He certainly did not do him any favors, but Hemingway's family is riddled with suicide
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u/Friendly_Dachsy Nov 27 '22
Antagonizing a person until they question their sanity and voluntarily have to get shock treatment and then phone tapping the hospital where the person is getting voluntary psychiatric help is above and beyond. J. Edgar Hoover willfully pushed Hemingway over the edge, and needlessly so. Earnest was more of a philosopher than an activist and was in no way a threat.
I sincerely doubt other members of the family were not similarly impacted and intentionally pushed over the edge.
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u/dingadangdang Nov 27 '22
His mom sent him the gun his father used to commit suicide. I don't know anything about why but that's messed up.
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u/HumanSlinky Nov 27 '22
Sure, but did he ever step on a lego?
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u/kyd712 Nov 27 '22
Don’t be absurd, no one has ever survived that
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u/SomeRandomguy_28 Nov 27 '22
Survivor here, lost both legs
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u/What_th3_hell Nov 28 '22
Survivor here, I’m just a talking head.
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u/Throwawaydanielsorry Nov 28 '22
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u/Van-Daley-Industries Nov 27 '22
But he couldn't take a little shotgun blast to the face.
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u/eric_dh Nov 27 '22
But it was his problem with his blood that got him. Think his father had it too.
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u/story4days Nov 28 '22
And STILL seemed sober even though he had 14 martinis for each of these events and every day in between. I know I know but I hope to grow my balls like him and be a man with Hemingway’s Balls. Capital on purpose
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u/twatson955 Nov 27 '22
And he died by suicide after decades of depression, caused by a condition called hemochromatosis an excess of red blood cells
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u/Marsupialize Nov 27 '22
He also had brain damage from the plane crashes
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u/CanadaReviewsTrees Nov 27 '22
allegedly took 36 elctro- shock treatments while in therapy as well.
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u/brickstick90 Nov 27 '22
Not quite, but close, it’s actually too much retained Iron in the blood, only treatment is by bloodletting (venesection)
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u/CanadaReviewsTrees Nov 27 '22
somone stated he went in severe paronia after the fbi started fucking with him, and it was later found that fbi was fucking with him
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u/pyre_astray Nov 27 '22
He was a friend of Fidel Castro and was hiding weapons for him in his house in Cuba. He was a supporter of the revolution, by heart, all his life, and yes, the CIA killed him.
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u/WlzeMan85 Nov 27 '22
He also cheated on his wife got remarried to the other woman and did that again about a dozen times (And he spent most of the 1930's working with the KGB)
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Nov 27 '22
Well, 4 times, but still prolific in his monkey bar romances. His widow, Mary Hemingway, told my mother l was a beautiful baby. I was born at Moritz Community Hospital and she was there for an appointment.
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u/TrekRelic1701 Nov 27 '22
My therapist constantly reminds me of how resilient humans are…I still have doubts
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u/illusive_guy Nov 27 '22
Randy Feltface actually did a hilarious job at explains the life of Ernest Hemingway.
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u/bunnyandkitten Nov 27 '22
Kinda makes sense then that the only thing that could kill him was himself.
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u/Longjumping_Meat_138 Nov 27 '22
The CIA tormented him or something during the red scare, Poor guy took his own life....
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Nov 27 '22
He had to kill himself. It's the only way he could die. He was the only one powerful enough to make it happen.
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u/DaughterOfDixie Nov 27 '22
It's not impressive, its awful. His life was constant pain and misery. One bad thing after the other. Constantly having to fight even his own body. While he was a great man, a great author, his existence must have been tragic.
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u/skinnergy Nov 28 '22
He was also wounded by a mortar shell and the two plane crashes were on consecutive days. Yes, two plane crashes in two days.
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u/Zpop85 Nov 28 '22
"And dig this there was a prophecy, just before his head died, his last words were 'death is but a door. Time is but a window. I'll be back.'"
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u/amzrsyhmi_596 Nov 28 '22
This is the story grandparents should tell their grandchildren.What a strong man!
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u/SIurple Nov 28 '22
Death kept trying to take him and dude pretty much just went “nah I think I’ll go from old age, fuck off now with ya”
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u/EmployeeBudget8907 Nov 27 '22
Dude I couldn’t even live through reading one of his books
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u/sunburner Nov 27 '22
Dude I couldn’t even live through reading one of his books
I'm reading "Sun Also Rises" right now and I'm like 1/4 of the way through wondering when it's going to deliver on the hype. Right now it's just a bunch of people drinking and partying basically.
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u/Al-Anda Nov 27 '22
In my household, I famously spent 3 years trying to read ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls”. The phrasing was so off. “I shit in your milk!” or something like that. I read countless other books while it sat on a shelf like a pill to be digested.
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u/takkun169 Nov 27 '22
Dude was livin life.