Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery

explosivejared writes "Yesterday we discussed the medical scare that physicist Stephen Hawking was going through. Happily, his website has posted a succinct statement that he is being kept for observation, but he is comfortable and expecting a full recovery."

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Full Recovery?

[dsginter]

Are any of us expected to make a full recovery?

Life is the leading cause of death, ya know.

Re:Full Recovery?

[Dr Caleb]

"Life is the leading cause of death, ya know."

"Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily." François de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot be killed by conventional weapons

[damburger]

The man is a survivor, that is for sure. I saw him lecture a few months ago, and is still on form. He will still answer the dumbest questions from any snide creationist or just plain ignorant member of the public - even though it took him considerable effort to compose a response.

Re:Cannot be killed by conventional weapons

[Bemopolis]

GP had it right. Snide evolutionists don't bother asking such questions of Hawking. Since he's, you know, not a biologist.

Re:Cannot be killed by conventional weapons

[DragonWriter]

You do realize that there are snide believers in evolution, also...right?

So? If there weren't snide evolutionists asking questions at the event on which the description was based, the fact that they exist elsewhere is irrelevant. The use of a adjective along with a noun usually suggests that the adjective is adding additional information that is not implicit in the noun, and also usually does not mean that there are no instances where the same adjective would apply to other nouns, even ones that are semantically opposed to the one being used in the present sentence.

Just being a creationist doesn't make someone "snide".

If it did, the phrase "snide creationist" would be redundant, so the mere use of the phrase suggests, indeed, that the GP realizes that.

Not looking for an argument, by any means...just pointing that out.

...in a context in which it is completely irrelevant. If you aren't trolling, exactly what are you doing?

Rushing to Death

[pleappleappleap]

But still, there's not reason to help death on its rounds...

I, for one, am glad Professor Hawking is expected to recover.

They finally checked on him

[jbeaupre]

Until then, it was 50-50. But as soon as the doctors observed him, the state of his health collapsed to one state: full recovery.

Re:They finally checked on him

[idontgno]

Actually, Hawking's observed photon trace virtualized into a Hawking-antiHawking pair. AntiHawking fell into a black hole, and we're recovering Hawking.

Re:They finally checked on him

[Chris Burke]

AntiHawking fell into a black hole, and we're recovering Hawking.

Wait a minute... Stephen Hawking didn't used to have a goatee... We saved the wrong one!

Ok, two things

[Weaselmancer]

Comfortable and expecting to make a full recovery --- As comfortable as a dying man can be I'm sure. Makes me wonder why he'd even want to recover.

First thing - we're all dying. Right now. Sure, Mr. Hawking has a name for what he's dying from and you don't (yet), but mortality is pretty much a constant. Just because your fate hasn't been given a label yet doesn't mean you don't have one. You do, just like everyone else. Including Mr. Hawking. I hope you're "as comfortable" as you can be too.

Second thing. Any sick person wants to recover. And that means you too. I guarantee if you were in a similar state you'd want to live just as much as...well, as anyone else. There's more to life than being able to walk around the block. There's art, music, science, math, and a host of other things you don't need a functioning body to enjoy.

My best friend from college has crippling MS. He's wheelchair bound. And he's one of the craziest and most fun people I've ever known. And at the time had an astonishingly hot girlfriend.

Life has far bigger parameters than you imply.

Living, is a very dangerous activity . . .

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . no one has been able to survive it yet.