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Seems to be more info in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76 https://www.theguardian.com/scienc

Seems to be more info in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawk...

dhbanes 9y ago
This reads like a pre-prepared obituary. No additional information regarding his death.
- pmoriarty 9y ago
  Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written. Newspapers keep such pre-prepared obituaries of famous people on-hand so that they can publish them instantly if that person happens to die. Any newspapers who don't do this will lose the all-important race for publication to newspapers that do.
  - seanmcdirmid 9y ago
    And in celebrating someone’s life, the specific details of their death aren’t so important anyways.
  - timb07 9y ago
    And because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
    - awad 9y ago
      On at least one occasion that I can recall, an obituary for Steve Jobs was published prematurely. As you can imagine, this caused a minor panic before retraction.
  - andyjohnson0 9y ago
    > Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written They are often written many years in advance. As an example, the Guardian's obituary for Billy Graham [1] was published ten years after its writer died. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-o...
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martinpw 9y ago
From that obituary, this line resonates: Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most.
- toomanybeersies 9y ago
  That quote resonates a lot with me. My lowest points are when life becomes too easy. When I start to miss the point of living. I quit my job and moved to a new country because I was becoming complacent, repeating the same thing every day. It's the moments closest to death when we are truely alive. Whether it's being struck by a disease, as Stephen Hawking tragically was all those many years ago, or climbing a mountain (and in my cause, getting stuck).
  - Eylandos 9y ago
    If you don't mind sharing, how are you right now?

Seems to be more info in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawking-professor-dies-aged-76 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/14/stephen-hawk...

dhbanes 9y ago

This reads like a pre-prepared obituary. No additional information regarding his death.

pmoriarty 9y ago
Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written. Newspapers keep such pre-prepared obituaries of famous people on-hand so that they can publish them instantly if that person happens to die. Any newspapers who don't do this will lose the all-important race for publication to newspapers that do.
- seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  And in celebrating someone’s life, the specific details of their death aren’t so important anyways.
- timb07 9y ago
  And because obituaries are pre-prepared, they're sometimes mistakenly pre-published.
  - awad 9y ago
    On at least one occasion that I can recall, an obituary for Steve Jobs was published prematurely. As you can imagine, this caused a minor panic before retraction.
- andyjohnson0 9y ago
  > Pre-prepared is exactly how most obituaries are written They are often written many years in advance. As an example, the Guardian's obituary for Billy Graham [1] was published ten years after its writer died. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-obituary https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/21/billy-graham-o...
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martinpw 9y ago

From that obituary, this line resonates: Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most.

toomanybeersies 9y ago
That quote resonates a lot with me. My lowest points are when life becomes too easy. When I start to miss the point of living. I quit my job and moved to a new country because I was becoming complacent, repeating the same thing every day. It's the moments closest to death when we are truely alive. Whether it's being struck by a disease, as Stephen Hawking tragically was all those many years ago, or climbing a mountain (and in my cause, getting stuck).
- Eylandos 9y ago
  If you don't mind sharing, how are you right now?