It does not apply to those suffering debilitating illnesses and physical collapse of their body -- for example , those suffering from motor neurone syndrome .
对那些患了让他们的身体虚弱无力和身体瓦解的疾病的人来说并不适用比如那些患运动神经元综合症状的人。
Hawking who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 shares his thoughts on death human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the guardian today .
Hawking has made a string of contributions to cosmology throughout a career that many doubted would last as long as it has after he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 .
Hawking , 69 , was expected to die within a few years of being diagnosed with degenerative motor neurone disease at the age of 21 , but became one of the world 's most famous scientists with the publication of his 1988 book " a brief history of time . "
