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| Christopher Hitchens |
Hitchens is known not only as a great lover of titles including colons (as ten out of 12 of his books contain this particular form of punctuation), he is also a well known smoker and alcoholic. His seemingly constant cigarette, coupled with a family history of esophageal cancer, makes Hitchens' diagnosis far from surprising.
When asked to comment on how he was doing Hitchens replied "How am I? I'm dying. Everybody is, but...the process has accelerated on me. So I'm looking for ways to try to die more like you".
Hitchens, in his usual fashion, is maintaining an objective stance on the subject.
"It's not a good cancer to get. The statistics are very depressing. Mine isn't just in my esophagus, either. It's gone to my lymph nodes. I would be a very lucky person to live another five years." 1The five year survival rate of this type of cancer is typically between 3-7%.
So if there is a God, now would be the most spectacular time to prove your existence.
