He was an atheist who said that belief in the afterlife was nothing more than a fairy story for people afraid of death.
However, now that he has gone on to his hereafter, whatever form that may take, Professor Stephen Hawking is to have his own permanent resting place in the heart of Westminster Abbey.
His ashes are to be interred in the abbey near the grave of that other great physicist Sir Isaac Newton, most probably during a thanksgiving service later this year.
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