Stephen Hawking
publicly said he backs the notion of assisted
suicide for people with terminal illnesses.
In an interview with the BBC he said: "We don't
let animals suffer, so why humans?"
Aside from his academic accolades, the
professor learned to adapt to life after being
diagnosed with motor neurone disease and
given two years to live when he married his first
wife, Jane, in 1964.
Only 5% of people with the form of MND that he
has - a condition called amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease -
survive for more than a decade after diagnosis
But he added: "There must be safeguards that
the person concerned genuinely wants to end
their life and they are not being pressurised into
it or have it done without their knowledge or
consent as would have been the case with me."
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