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I personally want to do death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
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