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If you have a certain sense of humor and you enjoyed the excerpts from Vanity Fair that I and others have posted here on the forum by Christopher Hitchens, then you should order from Amazon (using the OCF link) : Mortality.
It is a collection of seven of those essays published in somewhat different form in Vanity Fair. It adds an eighth chapter, Hitchens' fragmentary notes to himself.
the USA today review noted that
[quote]In the last 18 months of his life, Hitchens reported with little sentimentality or self-pity from a place he called "Tumorville." He was 62 when he died of esophageal cancer on Dec. 15, 2011.[/quote]
plus included some some of my favorite quotes
[quote]To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"

"I'm not fighting or battling cancer � it's fighting me."[/quote]
USA today Mortality review
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