Christopher Hitchens, Topic of Cancer
Hitchens. Photo by John Huba for Vanity Fair.
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning last June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corpse. . .
Hitch on death and denial, in Vanity Fair.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
August 10th, 2010 at 21:42
Thanks! I admit the first images I saw of him looking horrible with the headline “I’m Dying” at http://www.theatlantic.com were jarring. Jonah Goldberg interviewed him on video (with his best friend Martin Amis appearing towards the end):
http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/08/hitchens-talks-to-goldblog-about-cancer-and-god/61072/