What the dying see

Death is in the room tonight, and each writer looks at it from a different distance. Thomas rages at his father's bedside. Hitchens, diagnosed with esophageal cancer, reports from inside the experience with the precision of a foreign correspondent. Tolstoy follows a dying man through the final days when everything he built stops mattering and something else takes its place. Notice what each writer thinks is on the other side -- and whether they're terrified or relieved.