University professor blogs about suffering from terminal illness

By Laura Roberts Published: 5:23PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

Prof Mark Cato recounts upbeat anecdotes of bland hold up together with day trips to London where he was in error for a drunk, Tuesday golf sessions and trips lecturing to Beijing.

The law professor, 75, from Saffron Walden, Essex, has seen his Dying to Live blog review by 205,000 people in the 9 months since the launch.

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Half of MND sufferers die inside of fourteen months whilst the residue live on normal in between dual to five years.

Prof Cato, who lives with mother Alice, 70, set up an online diary to show people with MND that "life goes on" and dictates his postings utilizing a voice-activated computer.

He said:"I launched the blog to enthuse people who were ill, failing or vexed and show them that I am still personification golf, lecturing and travelling - notwithstanding the illness."

Professor Cato, who was the initial corner World Monopoly Champion in 1972, additionally describes customising a wooden kitchen hurl hilt in sequence to hold his Monte Christo cigars.

A former franchised surveyor he retrained as a law highbrow elderly 59 and began lecturing on settlement both in Britain and China.

Prof Cato added: "The last entrance will be the day prior to I die and hopefully I can pass afar meaningful I have since a little condolence to others in the same predicament.

"I goal I trip afar in a cool demeanour with a bottle of Bollinger and my family around me."

MND affects 7 in each 100,000 people in the UK and attacks the nerves that send messages to muscles heading to flesh wasting, stoppage and eventually death.