I’d rather be dead than linger on in an old folks’ home

My new friend said, They thrive in hospice!Some people think old folks homes are lovely. When the writer, critic and famous atheist was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Anderson Cooper asked him whether he might want to consider hedging his spiritual bets.Hitchens said: If that comes, it will be when I am very ill, when I am half demented, either by drugs or by pain, and I wont have control over what I say. If at some future time the man who lives in my body wants to move into an old folks home and play bingo, you can be confident that person is no longer me.

Source: www.latimes.com