“No one wants to die,” said the Apple chief executive, Steve Jobs. “And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it.”

It was a little by three years ago that Jobs spoke those existential words, during a commencement address at Stanford University. His thoughts about death came during a portion of his speech in which he publicly discussed — for the one and only day, so far as I can tell — his brush

with pancreatic cancer.

He talked about how he had learned in 2004 that he had a tumor on his pancreas. How his doctors told him that he shouldn’t expect to live more than six months. How, after “living with that diagnosis all day,” he had a biopsy that showed that his was a rare mold of pancreatic cancer, curable with surgery.

“I had the surgery and I’m fine now,” Jobs told […]

Orginal post by Top Tech News