I could do without his views on Iraq, but the rest of what Christopher Hitchens has to add to what he already has written and doneis gobsmacking fine.

CHARLIE ROSE: Do you think about how death happens?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Yes.

CHARLIE ROSE: What it’s like?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Yes. In my book, I say that I want to be conscious for it.

CHARLIE ROSE: You want to be conscious?

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: Yes. That I — it’s an experience– it’s yet another experience, and I don’t want to miss anything that comes. The experience I’d like to see coming, have some remark, perhaps, to make about it. That’s very qualified when you think of how painful a cancer death can be. You might lose your ability to make an observation or really to be taking in the situation at all.

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