Mortality

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But in the end, we have to acknowledge the truth of our mortality and come to grips with what that means for every individual. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick," Sontag wrote in Illness as Metaphor . As you literally stare death in the face, you have no choice but to consider what’s waiting for you on the other side. But as against that, the death-dealing stuff and life-preserving stuff have also made me strangely neuter.

He is working now on the amazing healing properties that are latent in stem cells and in “targeted” gene-based treatments. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water.An eighth and final chapter consists…of unfinished "fragmentary jottings" that he wrote in his terminal days in the critical-care unit of the M. This book is a stimulating appraisal of the impact, in medieval insular contexts, of an international idea of great longevity and significance, and makes an important contribution to the study of death, belief, and society in pre-modern Europe.

Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced - at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. Who else feels Christopher Hitchens getting terminal throat cancer [sic] was God’s revenge for him using his voice to blaspheme Him?A jovially combative riposte to anyone who thought that death would silence master controversialist Hitchens ( Hitch-22, 2010, etc. Both Apple and Google state that they ensure that only users who have actually downloaded the app can submit a review. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.