Stephen Hawking - Life Support Decision

Professor Stephen Hawking has revealed how he became so ill while writing A Brief History Of Time that doctors offered to turn off his life support machine.  (London Times)  



In a new film, the renowned physicist tells of how in 1985 he thought contracting pneumonia would stop him from completing the book which went on to sell 10 million copies.  But his first wife, Jane Hawking, refused to end her husband's life and demanded doctors in Switzerland return him to Cambridge.



Here is the trailer: