[Magdalen] RIP Steven Hawking

[Jay Weigel]

There is supposedly another kind of ALS, a "long-acting" kind, which
doesn't cause respiratory difficulties until the very end. My Israeli
friend's mother was diagnosed with it in her early 40s and lived for 27
years.

Someone on Twitter observed last night, "Steven Hawking died on Pi Day. I
wonder if he planned that."

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:35 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> Stephen Hawking was an outlier from the beginning.  He was diagnosed when
> he was 20 - way younger than the norm; he never needed respiratory
> assistance; he lived a very long time for someone with ALS.  Some experts
> have questioned if that really was his illness, or something else that
> mimics ALS.  But a rose by any other name . . .
>
> RIP.
>
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> Education is its own reward, both for the individual and for society.
>
> Jim Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net
>
> > On Mar 14, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:
> >
> > And he lived to age 76! Great hope for anyone with a chronic illness!
>
>