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.
Political views of Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens argued the case for the Iraq War in a 2003 collection of essays entitled "", and participated in public debates on the topic with George Galloway, Scott Ritter, and his brother Peter Hitchens. In its obituary of Hitchens, "The Economist" wrote that, "on the most consequential political issue of the last decade of his life, the bullshit got him."