Christopher Hitchens' Cancer: Author Undergoing Chemotherapy For Esophageal Cancer

As an atheist, I agree with Christopher Hitchens's views on religion, but as a liberal, I don't agree with some of his political stances like supporting the war in Iraq. It is sad to see that he has esophageal cancer which is so bad that the doctors have recommended chemotherapy. This almost certainly indicates that the cancer has progressed to a stage where it is inoperable, and the prognosis in such cases is poor. However, combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy does slow the progress of the cancer better than chemotherapy alone, although that might be a bit too much for his body to handle. I wish him all the best. Someday we will all have to confront our own mortality, and we all need hope, strength, and wisdom to try and cope with our mortality. As well as a universal single-payer healthcare system. That would also help. It wouldn't actually solve the problem of mortality, but it would increase life expectancies and decrease infant mortality, among other things. To actually solve mortality, we'd need some weird crazy science fiction-y solution that probably wouldn't work at all, such as backing up the data in our brains and transferring it to clones or to robots, or being cryogenically frozen until a cure is found for whatever is wrong with us. How utterly ridiculous such schemes for immortality are! But I believe Christopher Hitchens will be able to handle his mortality courageously, without the need to believe in life after death.