The world shattered completely with the news of Stephen Hawking’s death in the March month of 2018. Hawking was suffering from a very serious and incurable disease which led to his demise after five decades of a fight with the disease. Stephen Hawking was a renowned scientist and prominent in the world in the field of astrophysics. He did an extremely work in the field of astrophysics and gave many important theories related to cosmos world. Hawking is an inspiration for a huge number of people in the world and he is treated as a symbol of courage by all his lovers. What happened to Stephen Hawking which ended his life? In this post, we have discussed in details the diseases he was suffering from and will throw light on Stephen Hawking’s cause of death.

What diseases caused Stephen Hawking’s Demise?

What exactly was Stephen Hawking’s cause of death? Why did he spend five decades of his life on a wheel-chair? The great scientist, Stephen Hawking was suffering from a Motor neuron disease, known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This serious and incurable disease leads to degeneration of neurons (called motor neurone disease) in the spinal cord and brain. Under this, a severe damage is caused to the parts of the nervous system. This disease impacts the muscle activity of the human body which affects the muscle activities such as gripping, walking, speaking, swallowing, breathing, etc.

Stephen Hawking suffered from motor neuron disease at the age of 19. Doctor’s claimed that he would not be able to live for more than two years. But Hawking proved them wrong and lived another five decades of his life on his wheel-chair. The scientist faced a lot of trouble in his married life as his first wife left him because of his incurable disease. She anticipated that Hawking would not be able to take care of her as well as their three children so she divorced him. Stephen Hawking confessed that it is because of his diseases that he was able to focus more on his work. He had nothing to do except for sitting on his wheel-chair and working on his subjects.

Hawking wrote two books namely, My Brief History and A Brief History of Time in the years 2013 and 1988 respectively. In his book, My Brief History, the scientist has confessed that his diagnosis spurred him to work even harder than before. So, although amyotrophic lateral sclerosis did become Stephen Hawking’s cause of death still he will live in the hearts of people forever. His discoveries have brought revolutionary changes in the world of cosmos. And his thinking will be followed by people forever and it would not die in any case.