14 January 2017: "Without the technology, I likely would have taken the morphine train to dirtnap town. But I long ago realized that the essence of my being, that which makes me a person, is my mind, not my body. So I could continue being just as potent as ever.. Honestly, I firmly believe I am even more powerful now than when I was healthy and moving. Like Professor Stephen Hawking famously said, my body is a prison but my mind is free." --Eric Valor, who has ALS, using an assistive speech device, at the end of the latest episode of the Reply All podcast.
Give the whole episode--which talks about a researcher's attempts to achieve break-throughs in ALS research--a listen.
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