"Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and witnessing the death from leukaemia of a boy he knew in hospital, ignited a fresh sense of purpose. 'Although there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,' he once said. Embarking on his career in earnest, he declared: 'My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.'"
Ian Sample at The Guardian writes an obit for Stephen Hawking.
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