It should come as no surprise that Christopher Hitchens, who has recently been diagnosed with throat cancer, has shrugged off questions about whether he might "see the light" when faced with his own mortality. The author of the controversial God is Not Great is well known for his strident anti-religion views. In an essay in Vanity Fair, Hitchens describes his struggle with cancer:
"Myself, I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don’t read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent soldier or revolutionary is the very last one that will occur to you."
Click here for the rest of the essay, or click here to check out Hitch 22.
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