"Your mother committed suicide, in a pact with a lover, in 1973. Did she suffer from lifelong depression?"

"No. I think she was having a bad menopause, and she was losing her looks, which were pretty impressive."

Is that any way for Hitchens to talk about his mother, who killed herself when he was 6 26?
	Yes. She abandoned him, intentionally. This hostility is appropriate.
	Yes. It's honest analysis, plainly stated.
	No. He should show reverence or empathy or at least respect.
	No, because it sounds demeaning toward women generally.
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CORRECTION: Hitchen's age at the time of his mother's suicide was 26, not 6. That mistake affected the first 40 votes or so. Sorry!