Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs’ Final Words Revealed
Steve Jobs’ final words to his family have been revealed by his Sister a month after the 56 year old tragically died on October 5, 2011, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
His final moments have been shared by his sister, Mona Simpson, in The New York Times, a copy of the eulogy from Steve Jobs memorial service on 16th October has also been published. Below is an extract from the New York Times.
“His breathing changed. It became severe, deliberate, purposeful. I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before.
This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.
He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn’t be able to be old together as we’d always planned, that he was going to a better place.
Dr. Fischer gave him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night.
He made it through the night, Laurene next to him on the bed sometimes jerked up when there was a longer pause between his breaths. She and I looked at each other, then he would heave a deep breath and begin again.
This had to be done. Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude.
He seemed to be climbing.
But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later.
Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times.”
Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.
Steve’s final words were: ‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.’
You have to wonder at the enormity and simplicity of his final words, a fitting exit from a great man.
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