Death: Entry 2

In January 2010, the iPad was launched. Steve worked through his presentation onstage even though he was weak and had a hard time carrying on a conversation. A friend said Jobs wasn’t worried about Apples future; he knew that would be fine. “I just want to live long enough to see my kids graduate from high school,” said Steve. Jeff Goodell had a talk with Jobs just a short time after he had gotten the news of his diagnosis. Goodell explains how narrow he finally realized Steve’s life had been. No one really knows how much success had cost him. Steve was just so focused on one thing and so desperate to make it work. In the talk that they had, Goodell asked him if he had any regrets about his life. “Sure,” Steve said. “Personal things. Things that have to do with family.” As his illness worsened, he could see his life narrowing even further. He didn’t go out at night, didn’t accept awards, gave no speeches, and attended no parties. Instead, he hung out with his family at their home in Palo Alto and studied about cancer. One of his doctors said that Steve knew more about cancer than any oncologist. According to another friend, jobs came very close to death twice over the summer. He even gathered his family around him both times and prepared them for goodbye but he pulled through it. Only a few people were able to see him in his final days and his good friend that left for the last time said, “it did not feel like goodbye.”

Steve's health worsening

Sources: Steve Jobs Cover Story: Nobody Know. By: Jeff Goodell,