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Hawking Expecting To Make Full Recovery

Posted by timothy on from the buck-up-little-camper dept.

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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  1. Full Recovery? by dsginter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are any of us expected to make a full recovery?

    Life is the leading cause of death, ya know.

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  2. Cannot be killed by conventional weapons by damburger · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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  3. Re:They finally checked on him by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. Re:They finally checked on him by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  5. Ok, two things by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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    rediculous.