Stephen Heywood

[[Image:StephenProfile2011.jpg|thumb|Heywood's profile on the website PatientsLikeMe, set up by his brother and a friend to help people with ALS]]

'''Stephen Heywood''' (April 13, 1969 – November 26, 2006) was an American builder and self-taught architect, specializing in the renovation of old houses.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.boston.com/partners/worldnow/necn.html?catID=83459&clipid=1961887&autoStart=true&mute=false&continuous=true| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110523141731/http://www.boston.com/partners/worldnow/necn.html?catID=83459&clipid=1961887&autoStart=true&mute=false&continuous=true| url-status = dead| archive-date = May 23, 2011| title = Video - NECN.com}}</ref>

He was diagnosed with ALS in 1998, at the age of 29. He was the subject of ''His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine'', written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner, and the documentary film ''So Much So Fast'', which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}

His brothers James Heywood and Benjamin Heywood are co-founders of a website for patients with ALS and other life-changing illnesses, PatientsLikeMe; his father is the engineering professor John B. Heywood.

Heywood lived in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife and son until his death at age 37 from an accidentally detached respirator in November 2006.

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==External links== *[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/somuchsofast/ So Much So Fast] ''Frontline'' *[http://www.patientslikeme.com PatientsLikeMe.com], a website for patients with ALS and other life-altering conditions, set up by Stephen's brothers Jamie and Ben Heywood

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