Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
www.theguardian.com/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-there-is-no-heaven
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence