-:Undertaker:-
16-12-2011, 07:42 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2074866/Writer-Christopher-Hitchens-dies-aged-62-battle-cancer.html
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies, aged 62, after battle with cancer
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/06/article-1255983-00C46162000004B0-88_468x286.jpg
Left-wing Christopher Hitchens (right) and brother, right-wing Peter Hitchens (left)
Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62. Hitchens death was announced in a statement from Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The statement says he died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer.
A most engaged, prolific and public intellectual who enjoyed his drink (enough to 'to kill or stun the average mule') and cigarettes, he announced in June 2010 that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus and cancelled a tour for his memoir Hitch-22. Hitchens, a frequent television commentator and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Slate and other publications, had become a popular author in 2007 thanks to provocative best-seller, God Is Not Great, a manifesto for Atheists that defied a recent trend of religious works.
Cancer humbled, but did not mellow him. Even after his diagnosis, his columns appeared weekly, savaging the royal family or reveling in the death of Osama bin Laden. 'I love the imagery of struggle,' he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. '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.'
Although he stood roughly for almost everything I disagree with, i've always followed him because he was just interesting to listen to in debate and was an all round popular figure (very very popular in the United States). The debates with his brother are always interesting to watch (unlike so many debates in politics and just in general, these two know their stuff whichever side of the fence you sit on).
RIP.
Did anybody else follow Christopher Hitchens/know of him or his work?
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies, aged 62, after battle with cancer
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/06/article-1255983-00C46162000004B0-88_468x286.jpg
Left-wing Christopher Hitchens (right) and brother, right-wing Peter Hitchens (left)
Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night after a long battle with cancer. He was 62. Hitchens death was announced in a statement from Conde Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The statement says he died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his esophageal cancer.
A most engaged, prolific and public intellectual who enjoyed his drink (enough to 'to kill or stun the average mule') and cigarettes, he announced in June 2010 that he was being treated for cancer of the esophagus and cancelled a tour for his memoir Hitch-22. Hitchens, a frequent television commentator and a contributor to Vanity Fair, Slate and other publications, had become a popular author in 2007 thanks to provocative best-seller, God Is Not Great, a manifesto for Atheists that defied a recent trend of religious works.
Cancer humbled, but did not mellow him. Even after his diagnosis, his columns appeared weekly, savaging the royal family or reveling in the death of Osama bin Laden. 'I love the imagery of struggle,' he wrote about his illness in an August 2010 essay in Vanity Fair. '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.'
Although he stood roughly for almost everything I disagree with, i've always followed him because he was just interesting to listen to in debate and was an all round popular figure (very very popular in the United States). The debates with his brother are always interesting to watch (unlike so many debates in politics and just in general, these two know their stuff whichever side of the fence you sit on).
RIP.
Did anybody else follow Christopher Hitchens/know of him or his work?