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You can find the video ther under pics and videos.


The transcript can be found there. I would suggest the video.
http://www.mmanews.com/article/153008705.php


Ali was ultimately diagnosed with Pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugilistic_Parkinson%27s_syndrome

Dementia pugilistica, also called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome, boxer's syndrome, and punch-drunk syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects career boxers and others who receive multiple dazing blows to the head. The condition develops over a period of years, with the average time of onset being about 16 years after the start of a career in boxing.


Thoughts?

People should be allowed to live their own lives. Sometimes there personal choices and goals will hurt them. This is a sad fact we all hope to be clever enough to avoid. This is not an invitation to legislatively impose mom with a shiney badge and goverment issue jumper where she's clearly unwelcome.

Yeah, it is a tragedy how things worked out for Muhammad Ali, who may even be The Greatest For All-Time. So because of the end he's inadvertantly chosen for himself EVERYONE should be denied the opportunity to leave such a legacy? He traded the well-being that follows the summer of youth for immortality. Who is anyone else to judge the merits of his bargain?