Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with oesophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour and to which he succumbed in December 2011. An eighth chapter consisting of unfinished "fragmentary jottings," a foreword by Graydon Carter, Hitchens' Vanity Fair editor and an afterword by Carol Blue, Hitchens' widow, are also included in the publication.