# Christopher Hitchens just died **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [December 16, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384 "2011-12-16T05:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/1 "2011-12-16T05:36:13Z")
Well, that sucks. I’d have liked if he drank a little less during his debates, but he was a sharp guy and I enjoyed hearing his opinions. I’m sure there will be strong opinions both ways on this. ---
**Author:** ![eman77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eman77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eman77)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/2 "2011-12-16T05:39:03Z")
Extremely intelligent and opinionated. Disagreed with him at times but rooted for him many more times. RIP. I’m just glad he outlived Falwell. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/3 "2011-12-16T05:47:13Z")
Not a surprise, but a shame. It’s a loss for public intellectual discourse and for lovers of good writing. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/4 "2011-12-16T06:19:10Z")
I admired his grit. Didn’t matter whether or not I agreed with him, I knew I was getting someone’s honest opinion unflavored by the urge to be popular. I suspect actual independent journalism will soon be gone. We’ve certainly lost one of the few remaining practitioners. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/5 "2011-12-16T06:23:10Z")
Not unexpected, but still a great loss. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/6 "2011-12-16T06:23:47Z")
I second almost everything above. It sucks, I liked hearing him, I disagreed with him frequently (especially about Iraq), the world is a poorer place now. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/7 "2011-12-16T06:30:47Z")
He’s with Jesus now. ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/8 "2011-12-16T06:33:00Z")
I really was not sure where to post this, but I do know it should be posted on The Straight Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/9 "2011-12-16T06:33:40Z")
[A great collection of his rock-hard atheist-muscles.](http://youtu.be/mQorzOS-F6w) \<–youtube ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/10 "2011-12-16T07:11:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > He’s with Jesus now. I sincerely hope so. He certainly had plenty of warning that he was gonna die. I hope he reconsidered. ---
**Author:** ![kaltkalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@kaltkalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaltkalt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/11 "2011-12-16T07:12:30Z")
He will be very missed, damn this really sucks. I knew he was going to die from the cancer, but he seemed to be at a bad yet stable condition. Oh well. We, the non-crazy, fact-based world people will forever miss Hitch. How long before the religious nuts start making false claims (via fox news and mass lie-spam emails) that Hitchens gave up atheism and “found jesus” at the last moment on his deathbed? We know some of the more evi religious gonna happen… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/12 "2011-12-16T07:15:40Z")
Dang ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/13 "2011-12-16T07:15:56Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > I sincerely hope so. > > He certainly had plenty of warning that he was gonna die. I hope he reconsidered. That’s a pretty vile way to sully his memory. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/14 "2011-12-16T07:16:40Z")
He’s Hitchslapping the angels now. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/15 "2011-12-16T07:28:17Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > He’s with Jesus now. Stolen, put on Facebook. Thanks. > [@PandaBear77](#): > > He certainly had plenty of warning that he was gonna die. I hope he reconsidered. I applaud your tasteless humor. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/16 "2011-12-16T07:29:27Z")
Now he’s rotting in a grave, the chemical elements of his body disassociating and returning to the ecosystem whence it came, to be be reordered into different organic compounds. _[sub]sniff[/sub]_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/17 "2011-12-16T07:59:09Z")
> [@PandaBear77](#): > > I sincerely hope so. > > He certainly had plenty of warning that he was gonna die. I hope he reconsidered. The man himself responds “[Fuck that!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-SjC3lTWk&feature=related)” ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/18 "2011-12-16T08:04:58Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > The man himself responds “[Fuck that!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-SjC3lTWk&feature=related)” Fuck yeah. Head held low, glass held high. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/19 "2011-12-16T08:19:41Z")
He’s watering his horses in heaven. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384/20 "2011-12-16T09:46:31Z")
No, he ascended.😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christopher-hitchens-just-died/606384.md?page=2)