Only when you become seriously ill do you realize what a treasure life is. A brilliant intellectual and brilliant polemicist, American writer Christopher Hitchens, resisting a terrible diagnosis, wrote this book until the end of his days. This is his last report, but not from the “hot spots”, where he often went on assignment from the editors, but from a hospital ward. This is a frank and bitter story about how to live with illness. This is a world of caustic and deeply personal reflections on one’s own life, one’s favorite work, and the pain that the loss of the ability to communicate causes a writer and speaker. An agnostic in the most honest sense of the word, Hitchens remained true to himself to the last letter. This is a book for those who have experience of struggle and loss. For those who try to be frank and honest, but in difficult moments strive to resist.