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Old 14-03-2018, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post
Though people mean well when they say "Rest in Peace" or "RIP", I think
Stephen would have considered it a lot of mumbo jumbo

Stephen had to live his whole life contemplating an early
death and I can't help but feel that he would have joked that he would
neither be at rest or at peace, just dead.

As he once said, "I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark."

For a man who spent a good part of his life attempting to prove the Universe
could be created without a God, I would imagine that he might have hoped
that we could at least re-boot his brain.

He once said, "I think the brain is like a program in the mind, which is like
a computer. So it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer
and so provide a form of life after death."

So long Stephen and thanks for all the golden eggs.
As usual, Gazza points out the reality and encapsulates the situation beautifully....

Mike
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