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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Once asked about his last words in the context of a deathbed conversion, he said:
It makes no sense to me to attribute some sort of elevated stock or special meaning to a person's last words. As a person lays dying they're by definition barely a functional human being anymore.
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Capitalism... downfall.
The quote you used was Hitchen's response to the possibility of a death-bed conversion.
I don't think any of this really matters. As I've argued, he wasn't exactly consistent when it came to his own personal beliefs, and there is some controversy over whether he had actually ever read Marx.