Christopher Hitchens oesophageal cancer on BBC with Paxman

Update
Christopher Hitchens dies December 16, 2011. Vanity Fair says this:

Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62.
"Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic," Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades.

"My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends," he wrote in the June 2011 issue. He died in their presence, too, at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.


Christopher Hitchens - author, journalist and champion of the "new atheism" movement - has given an interview to Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman.
Here he talks about his treatment for oesophageal cancer which has now spread to his lymph nodes and lungs.

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[lifeschild1]

I had learned of Christopher approximately one week ago and since could not stop watching his videos and listening to him. For some odd reason, I have a deep feeling of kinship toward him. And, I will most assuredly miss him tremendously. A genius....with incomparable intellect. A brave outspoken mind. The philosopher of our times.

[twobins]

I never tired of hearing or reading CH. RIP

[chatanwarrior]

@chatanwarrior i suppose trees dont fall in the woods unless u see a utube video of it haha

[chatanwarrior]

@bobokk and by that illogical statement you do not exist so go fuck off robot

[bobokk]

@chatanwarrior Video or it never happened.

[chatanwarrior]

@bobokk and since you're a pussy you like the other so called competitors need super thick padding to protect yourselves from guys like me who break others bones just from blocking, i'll be sure and upload a new video just for you once tournament season starts next year and i no longer have to hold back on pussy ass cowards like you, i'll be thinking of you in the ring ciao

[chatanwarrior]

@bobokk actually know since you're an atheist and no doubt suck at math and understanding the concept of time let me inform you, those videos were made at least 2 years ago, i since lost 50lbs thus putting me in the normal range, since i have a broad build giving me a slightly shorter reach i will always look larger than average, meanwhile i have also EARNED my black belt, sparred a 4 time 4th degree black belt okinawan champion to a draw and greatly inproved, of course your a pussy

[bobokk]

@chatanwarrior Your awesome life as a fat fuck troll who sucks at karate.

[chatanwarrior]

@bobokk sorry couldnt hear you, im busy not having cancer and living my awesome life, go back to your hovel and cry about the sad sack hitchens as more of his organs fail, enjoy your book burning adolf

[chatanwarrior]

@bobokk weight does not a troll make lol, im no troll and your dying prophet weighs more than i do now, although im sure with all his organs failing he'll lose that pesky being alvive weight soon :P dick face