I haven't posted for a while.Sadly, this is among some of the most sad news I have heard in a long time. While the passing of anyone that leaves this world unprepared and not saved is sad, to me, in his case he endured most of his life confined to a wheelchair, unable to speak without technology, yet his mind remained intact. To know he spent virtually his whole life this way and unless he repented, he has now met the God that he did not believe existed. Sadly, he discovered, too late, the created, in spite of great intellectual gifts, is not greater than the Creator. Ultimately atheists such as Hawking, O'Hara, David Hume, Nietzsche, Sartre and others will bow before the King of Kings and profess that he is Lord. This is not a time to revel in the fact that Hawking has met the God he thought could not exist was truly the entity that existed before the Big Bang. If there was a Big Bang, God was the one that ordained it.