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Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
5.0
Writing when dying would give anyone a unique viewpoint. This is no more true than for [a:Christopher Hitchens|3956|Christopher Hitchens|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1397346625p2/3956.jpg], who wrote [b:Mortality|13529055|Mortality|Christopher Hitchens|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337177391s/13529055.jpg|18446960] in the 19 months between the diagnosis of his oesophageal cancer and his death.
For Hitchen's, cancer meant 'a very gentle and firm deportation [...] from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks of the land of malady'. [b:Mortality|13529055|Mortality|Christopher Hitchens|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337177391s/13529055.jpg|18446960] is an atheist's musings on death and dying. It also includes Hitchen's final thoughts, his railings against unreasoned thought and sloppy thinking, as well as new ideas he wanted to explore through writing.
Regardless of your religious persuasion, Mortality is a work that explores what is means - for any of us - to be a 'citizen of the sick country'.
For Hitchen's, cancer meant 'a very gentle and firm deportation [...] from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks of the land of malady'. [b:Mortality|13529055|Mortality|Christopher Hitchens|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337177391s/13529055.jpg|18446960] is an atheist's musings on death and dying. It also includes Hitchen's final thoughts, his railings against unreasoned thought and sloppy thinking, as well as new ideas he wanted to explore through writing.
Regardless of your religious persuasion, Mortality is a work that explores what is means - for any of us - to be a 'citizen of the sick country'.