As for his work, Hitchens says he would be happy to be recalled simply as one of those “who are attempting to uphold reason and science against superstition.”
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Today is Pray for Hitch day and it doesn’t look good, folks. When they announced the date, I wondered if it was a little too… ambitious. But he is still around, so do your thing.
I wonder if I would bother having chemo if I was in his position. It seems like a waste of time. If I calculate the time my mother spent getting treatment then subtract the time it “bought” for her, and the suffering that went with it, I’m not sure that would be my choice.
