Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens died of hospital-acquired pneumonia on 15 December 2011 in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, aged 62. In accordance with his wishes, his body was donated to medical research. "Mortality", a collection of seven of Hitchen's "Vanity Fair" essays about his illness, was published posthumously in September 2012.
Janet Hitchman
Hitchman was working on a life of the author, Ouida, when she diagnosed with an inoperable cancer in 1978. In her last 18 months, she recorded a series of interviews for BBC producer Hallam Tennyson in which she talked about her coming death. The resulting piece, "The Fact of Death," was broadcast on BBC Four in December 1980.