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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitchens-dies-aged-62?CMP=twt_fd http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitc... Hitchens gave short shrift to the "insulting" suggestion that cancer might persuade him to change his position where reason had not, arguing that to ditch principles "held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favour at the last minute" would be a "hucksterish choice", and urging those who had taken it upon themselves to pray for him not to "trouble deaf heaven with your bootless cries".