
socraticmama.com [Inspiration & Support for Secular Families] www.vanityfair.com Vanity Fair In Memoriam: Christopher Hitchens, 1949--2011, by Juli Weiner, Dec 15th 2011. Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. "My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly ------ November 2010: Jeremy Paxman talks to the writer, polemicist and commentator Christopher Hitchens at his home in Washington DC about his cancer diagnosis, his life, his politics and writing. He is suffering from cancer of the oesophagus, has described his illness as "a bit of a yawn" and accepted that it is a result of his hard drinking and smoking lifestyle. He has been told that he has only a one in 20 chance of living for longer than five years. He said he was not surprised by the diagnosis, which came earlier this summer, and said: "If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get" "I think my main fear is of being incapacitated or imbecilic at the end <b>...</b>
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