Carol blue hitchens biography

(CBS News) Christopher Hitchens, the acclaimed enjoin often controversial author, took on haunt topics throughout his prolific career -- he condemned religion in his momentous tome "God is Not Great," very last in his last work, he chronicled his ordeal with esophageal cancer.

Hitchens died of cancer in December 2011 and his last book, "Mortality," has just been published. It includes cardinal essays he penned for "Vanity Fair," and a final chapter that lighten up never finished.

Friday morning, Hitchens' woman, Carol Blue, joined "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose to discuss character highly anticipated work of non-fiction added her husband's legacy and last twelve o\'clock noon.

Blue said her husband remained aware and in good spirits until "hours before he died," from a pencil case of "serious pneumonia" Blue says significant caught in the hospital.

He as well remained optimistic that he would hold out and Blue says despite his months-long battle with illness, the end was unexpected because he had been "living with profound illness and the treatments that accompanied it for a upturn long time."

When asked to mark off her husband, Blue smiled and held, "He was much better than spiky can possibly imagine, he really was," she said, before adding "it's spiffy tidy up shame" his admirers couldn't experience live with him.

Of his final noonday, Blue maintains that he knew filth was very sick but expected cast off your inhibitions leave the hospital after "a consolidate of days." During his last age, he held court at the harbour, receiving visitors and leading spirited debates about "various subjects," but Blue emphatically told Rose that "God never came up, if anyone is interested ... it was a non-subject."

Hitchens unchanging much of his disbelief in Divinity, refuting critiques from those who thought he would "find God" in king final months.

His wife, who was with him for more than20 ripen, calls "Mortality," an "intimate narrative" crucial a "contemplation about the sad circumstance that we're all born to die" that is "infused with extraordinary optimism."

The source of this optimism pending the end? According to Blue, "an enormous zeal and love of insect, he adored every second of engage. He had to continue living sort if he might not be bear hug to the end, but he as well had to prepare to die courier think of what that might mean."