A- Lou Gehrig Speech

Lou Gehrig is one of the most remembered athletes of the 20th century; his most defining moment, not some homerun or grand slam, but his last speech before his death. In it he describes how he was the luckiest man on the planet; despite his ever debilitating condition he always kept his head up and acknowledged his ever impending death. He did not let his disease control how he acted, he still went on living his life as he wished to live it, he explains that he was so lucky to have all that he had, and how he has coped with his disease. His disease was one that was an advanced and far more rare form of MA(Muscular Atrofy), that rather than set in quickly, took time and generally an entire lifetime to finally become lethal. The pain that he felt everyday was excrutiatingly numbing, a person that can be linked to this disease today is non other than the world renowned Stephen Hawkings. Stephen Hawkings is currently in a permanent wheelchair, and his disease has progressed to a point that he can no longer speak, but must use a computer that measures eye movements and writes them down on a document processor that reads it aloud when indicated. Lou Gehrig was not so licky, at least to the world he was not so lucky. To himself, he thought himself the luckiest person on the planet for all of what he had aquired and what he had inspired.