Btw, this is a record for ALS patients, most die in a year or two.
It’s not just a record, it blows away the next best by 2 decades. It’s such an extreme amount of time to survive a progressive disease, especially as he was already in a wheelchair decades ago, which indicates a great deal of progression had already occurred by then.
It’s also interesting that, as the Big Bang models of the universe he spent his whole life creating are disintegrating under their inconsistencies, he should now turn his thoughts to politics instead.