Article from The Australian newspaper about the impending cancer treatment of Christopher Hitchens, celebrity journalist, atheist and curmudgeon.
Treatment for this form of cancer is pretty awful (as are they all, really). The radiation therapy leaves the throat pretty incapable of swallowing food.
This link is included here for news.
Any sort of comment linking Hitchen’s atheism and his illness is grossly inappropriate and wrong-headed.
There is a certain irony that one committed to what they term rationalism has continued to heavily smoke cigarettes, an activity fraught with self-harm.
The relevance of this post is that smoking is a stupid habit. Don’t smoke.