Actually, he was beaten before the book was finished, & not by the Angels, but another bike gang in the area...he later acknowledged it was partly his own fault, he made the mistake of drinking with them, & foolishly got into a drunken argument with one member over motorcycles...& of course, when they came to blows, it was "one for all, & all on one"...I felt little surprise that he would kill himself, by his own account he abused his body over the years, & if it had begun to finally break down on him, he would not be the kind to hang on to life if it meant being feeble & pitiful...& of course, we KNOW he had a gun handy to do the job...

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