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Hawking to Be Buried in Westminster Abbey

• Simulacra 9y ago
  A rightful honor Among giants.
• SideburnsOfDoom 9y ago
  It seems a little ironic though, to inter Hawking in a religious center considering his Scientific world-view: "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." http://time.com/5199149/stephen-hawking-death-god-atheist/ http://time.com/5199149/stephen-hawking-death-god-atheist/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking/8515639/Stephen-Hawking-heaven-is-a-fairy-story-for-people-afraid-of-the-dark.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/stephen-hawking/851...
  • AllegedAlec 9y ago
    I can think of no better place than to inter Hawking than in the same place as Isaac Newton, to be honest.
  • celticninja 9y ago
    It was chosen not because of its religious significance but because it is where Isaac Newton is interred. Hawking will be remembered like Newton and Einstein.