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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.


Stanford, June 2005
Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

 




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Requiem in pacem, jobs.
 



 
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That was such a bad news this morning.  

Rest in peace Steve.
 




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R.I.P. Steve.

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All men can die but your name will be remembered. RIP. Steve Jobs.
 



 
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A king dies and a new king will ascend.
Steve dies ....will a new Steve arise?

SJ was truly inspiring. Holding the iphone in your hand will remind me of what a great creative inventor was he.
 



 
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The " i-Mmortality 4ME " would have sold bigtime but as quoted in post one ..he "prefered" the other invention ...Death  
 




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Iphone made my life easier and fun... Steve have a great mind
 



 
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I was sad when I learned Steve Jobs died. Although we know that he is very sick but we were still hoping that he could live longer so he could still make wonderful products. I am Steve Jobs fan and I'm very grateful for his ingenuity that changed technology. He simply made life more fun and I'm gonna missed him.
 



 
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I remember him for many things including giving Bill Gates a job.
 



 
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RIP Steve Jobs
 



 
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