Not even asystole can stop Stephen Hawking. “Hawking, who suffers from a progressive neurodegenerative disease that has almost completely paralyzed him, was due to travel to Seattle from San Francisco. But when he was taken off his respirator Monday morning, ‘he basically flat-lined,’ said Terry Bristol, ISEPP’s president and executive director.

‘They had to resuscitate, and that panicked a few people,’ Bristol told the audience. ‘But he’s been there before.'” (via FARK.com)

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