Miscellaneous Christopher Hitchens. Mortality. New York. Twelve. 2012. isbn 9781455502752"It's that death is easy; it's dying that takes away our dignity, and with it, our humanity. Mortality is an honest stare-down, sometimes brutally so, in the face of death."
""The absorbing fact about being mortally sick is that you spend a good deal of time preparing yourself to die with some modicum of stoicism (and provision for loved ones), while being simultaneously and highly interested in the business of survival." The fact that Hitchens continued to write up to the very end displays an intense will to go on living, even in the face of death. But perhaps more important, this memoir is further testament to a will to write and think. "
"In one of the most touching chapters, Hitchens recounts the loss of his voice. In a resonant way, Hitchens saw his voice as a type of weapon. When he began to lose it, he found himself unable to argue and therefore think. In another chapter he describes the way one listens to and thinks of music differently when one has been diagnosed with a terminal disease".
Christopher Hitchens, writer, was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and continued to write. What he wrote about was his mortality and dying. I was just reading en essay on his book and found these interesting comments.
my thoughts:
The forgotten parts go to limbo, until you are ready to meet them.
Miscellaneous Christopher Hitchens. Mortality. New York. Twelve. 2012. isbn 9781455502752
""The absorbing fact about being mortally sick is that you spend a good deal of time preparing yourself to die with some modicum of stoicism (and provision for loved ones), while being simultaneously and highly interested in the business of survival." The fact that Hitchens continued to write up to the very end displays an intense will to go on living, even in the face of death. But perhaps more important, this memoir is further testament to a will to write and think. "
"In one of the most touching chapters, Hitchens recounts the loss of his voice. In a resonant way, Hitchens saw his voice as a type of weapon. When he began to lose it, he found himself unable to argue and therefore think. In another chapter he describes the way one listens to and thinks of music differently when one has been diagnosed with a terminal disease".
Christopher Hitchens, writer, was diagnosed with a terminal illness, and continued to write. What he wrote about was his mortality and dying. I was just reading en essay on his book and found these interesting comments.
my thoughts:
- Death is easy, the actual process. It happens, then, gone, nothing more. But when we know we are to die soon or are stuck in a place of knowing we are about to or bound to die, this is what we become fearful.
- There is the thought of preparing oneself for death when you know you are about to die, but then there is also the dire to look into ways of survival. It is often though when people are on their death bed, it is as soon as they give up the will to live, that they then die.
- I am interested with this loss of voice. It is something so 'important' (but even more than this) and the fact that he can still internally function must have been so hard. The shutting down of the body, and knowing it's happening is terrifying. It's paralysing - both mentally and physically. The knowledge of going, leaving the body slowly surely must make you question where your body is going to. And at this point, i must lead this conversation back to limbo, this is where the forgotten parts go.
The forgotten parts go to limbo, until you are ready to meet them.
Miscellaneous Christopher Hitchens. Mortality. New York. Twelve. 2012. isbn 9781455502752