Claire Kimball

Yeah, he really did.

And looking at the coverage yesterday, I was really taken by one clip of his daughter saying it wasn't about trying to save himself.

It was about making sure that he left a legacy for others, that they could find out more about this really dreadful disease.

But just looking into who he is in a bit more detail, if you're from one of the Aussie rural states, chances are you know a bit about his work because there's one particular event that happens on the June long weekend, the Big Freeze, they call it.

It's at the MCG.

It's one of these really, really fun fundraising events where they send celebrities and football players down an ice slide and

The ice slide comes into it because it's meant to symbolise the freezing effect of motor neurone disease on a person's muscles.

Over the years, since 2014, Fight MND, which is an organisation that Danaher co-founded, it's raised more than $130 million, which is just extraordinary.

It's given much needed funds to researchers.

Andrew, on the AFL side of things, I'm going to throw to you because you're a bit of an AFL nut.

Yeah, and just on that disease, there's no known cause, very limited treatments, and there's certainly no cure for it.

Essentially, what it does is it attacks the nerve cells that carry the messages from the brain through the spinal cord to the muscles.

So ultimately, it leaves sufferers unable to move, to talk, to swallow, or to breathe.

And if you get a diagnosis, the average is about two years to live.

But Danaher's case shows that that timeline isn't always the case.

To live with 13 years with motor neurone disease is quite something.

If it's ringing some bells, Jai Arrow, who you talked about last week, Andrew, he's the 30-year-old NRL star.

He confirmed his diagnosis, a really emotional press conference and interview yesterday.

that he gave about that really devastating to see.

Andrew, you mentioned that I follow motor neurone disease news quite closely.