Mortality

It's going to happen to us all and the more often brave souls take up the challenge of breaking the taboos about talking about death the better we'll be at dealing with the inevitable. Anyone who finds thinking about death difficult should read this. It's unflinching and raw at times, but massively life affirming, empowering, will serve to desensitise and help with clarifying your own thoughts on death. It goes without saying that anyone already a fan of writing which takes the bull by the horns will already be familiar with Hitchens and will have already read this!

I heard Hitch say in an interview that his inspiration for this book came from reading an article in the paper that referred to him as, "The late Christopher Hitchens." I thought that was fascinating. Not to mention he wrote it while in the midst of an unrelenting battle for his life.. I enjoyed this book from beginning to end. Hitchens had a unique gift in that he was able to maintain originality in a world dominated by copycats & status quos. He & his many talents are/will be missed.

Hitchen's faces his own mortality with his usual logic, not swaying from his humanist atheist outlook. Eloquently handles the calls for him to recant with powerful reasoning.