christopher hitchens

i read christopher hitchens mortality over a weekend a couple of weeks ago - a first hand account of his battle with cancer. it is a beautiful, perfectly pitched and sharp witted (as usual) book by of a man facing his own mortality. afterwards (because it's hard to let go and put down a book after you read what you know are the last words ever to be written by a great writer),  i watched parts of his memorial and got to know a little more about a writer, thinker, and man who by definition lived a full life.