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A review by girlnextshore
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
3.0
In this memoir on the end of life, Christopher Hitchens wrote of dying in his trademark wit and dry humour. Particularly touched as he wrote of the fear of losing his voice, losing the ability to write and type, and his cancer eventually degrading his purpose and life’s work to muteness.
His wife’s afterword is beautiful and so filled with love, it’s heartbreaking.
If you liked When Breath Becomes Air, this is slightly of similar page (but Netflix, more than Hollywood). I think it’s brave of the dying to write their memoirs like this. I’ve heard some criticise this as self-indulgent, but we do need to talk about dying more often than we do. If only to voice out what it is really like (because we never know what to expect do we), and to also celebrate the life we live.
His wife’s afterword is beautiful and so filled with love, it’s heartbreaking.
If you liked When Breath Becomes Air, this is slightly of similar page (but Netflix, more than Hollywood). I think it’s brave of the dying to write their memoirs like this. I’ve heard some criticise this as self-indulgent, but we do need to talk about dying more often than we do. If only to voice out what it is really like (because we never know what to expect do we), and to also celebrate the life we live.