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Steve Jobs' Official Cause of Death Listed as Respiratory Arrest and Pancreatic Tumor
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at least MR did not spread a rumor that he had aids, he certainly would of filled that rumor, glad to see this site is honest, RIP Steve, we love you!
RIP Steve.
Apple should start a huge campaign/fund raising against Cancer.
http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=7827
Apple should start a huge campaign/fund raising against Cancer.
http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=7827
Reading that report brought a tear to my eye. The mental image of a man of such vigor and influence for which the simple term 'entrepreneur' barely scrapes the surface, brought to an end with difficulty breathing, it somehow makes it real and reveals the fragility of human life.
I'm still really bummed out that he's gone. But at least he's not suffering anymore.
I miss you Steve.
I miss you Steve.
Being a person with lung disease and a member of the mesothelioma community I would venture to say that is exatly what happened. Any kind of end stage hospice care cancer usually comes with a morphine drip to help ease the pain of the cancer.
To put it bluntly.
Steve just stopped breathing.
Like it or not. Death is something we will all deal with.
I hope Steve was sleeping when he passed.
Everything I do as a videographer and filmmaker relies on Apple devices or software for my editing, communication and information. I won't, can't go a day without thinking of Steve Jobs and his wonderful impact on my life and so many others in our world...
Tragic reading, and even more so that it proves what a lot of us suspected through the recent years, that the cancer had never fully been battled.
Steve at his commencement speech said that he was told it was a rare, treatable form of the disease in that part of the body, and that he had the procedure and was "fine now".
I can't stop watching old keynotes, I was watching the 1999 WWDC keynote where Steve wore the white turtleneck with the small Apple logo on the left side of the chest. He was just so full of energy, and like others, I find it a little unnerving just how much I'm missing a man I never knew at all.
But then, that's the beauty of Steve ... he made us feel like we knew him through his enthusiasm for his company and products.
Steve at his commencement speech said that he was told it was a rare, treatable form of the disease in that part of the body, and that he had the procedure and was "fine now".
I can't stop watching old keynotes, I was watching the 1999 WWDC keynote where Steve wore the white turtleneck with the small Apple logo on the left side of the chest. He was just so full of energy, and like others, I find it a little unnerving just how much I'm missing a man I never knew at all.
But then, that's the beauty of Steve ... he made us feel like we knew him through his enthusiasm for his company and products.
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Speaking towards untraditional treatments...he had the money and resources if it existed. So note to all, if the doctor recommends traditional treatments...do it!
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Speaking towards untraditional treatments...he had the money and resources if it existed. So note to all, if the doctor recommends traditional treatments...do it!
It's easy for us to get caught up in the "magnitude" of losing Steve Jobs, but in the end it is the people closest to us that ultimately shape our lives in the biggest ways.
Your mother may not have changed our lives, but she certainly did yours. My condolences to you and your family for your loss.
How did the doctors miss this especially when they should be checking if the tumor comes back on the pancreas?
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True, but "Entrepreneur" seems so limiting for him. But what else can you say? If they'd listed his occupation as "Steve F&%^ing Jobs, Duh!" it wouldn't have been dignified
Knowing pancreatic cancer is there is not necessarily much help. The survival rate is dismally low, even when detected early.
The Bloomberg report says that the certificate says Jobs died due to a tumour which was found 5 years prior to death. He was first diagnosed in 2003, which would suggest it returned in 2006. Yet he kept on doing what he loved, working for the company he loved ... unbelievable.