Stephen Hawking, the penultimate rock star of theoretical physics and cosmology, won't mind assisted suicide but only for certain preconditions.

He told Irish comedian Dara O'Briain that assisted suicide is the only option if he realizes that the people surrounding him think that he's becoming a quite a load to handle.

"To keep someone alive against their wishes is the ultimate indignity. I would consider assisted suicide only if I were in great pain or felt I had nothing more to contribute but was just a burden to those around me," Stephen Hawking, 73, said.

The life story of Stephen Hawking is well documented, and was also translated to the big screen "The Theory of Everything," where he was portrayed by Eddie Redmayne who won an Oscar for his performance.

He was diagnosed with ALS when he was till 21 years old and was only given a few months to live.

If his wife, Jane, had been a supporter of assisted suicide, Stephen Hawking wouldn't have been able to complete his opus, "A Brief history of Time."

And this is not the first time that Stephen Hawking talked about assisted suicide since he's quite a supporter of the practice.

In an earlier interview, Stephen Hawking said, "There must be safeguards that the person concerned genuinely wants to end their life and they are not being pressurized into it or have it done without their knowledge and consent."

But The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/03/stephen-hawking-i-would-consider-assisted-suicide noted that just because Stephen Hawking considers assisted suicide as one of his many options, the physicist still feels like he's got more to do.

"In his forthcoming BBC interview, Hawking said he felt he had many more discoveries to make and theories to produce," it said, quoting the genius as saying, 'I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe.'"