Only seriously ill, you understand what wealth is life . Brilliant intellectual and bright polemicist, American writer Christopher Hitchens, resisting a terrible diagnosis, wrote this book for the rest of his days. This is his last report, but not from the “hot spots”, where he often went on assignment, but from the hospital ward. This is a frank and bitter story about how to live in illness . It 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 the writer and speaker. 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 fighting and losing. For those who try to be frank and honest, and in difficult moments strive to resist .