Steve Jobs might have killed himself
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#2Stupid
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#3He had six months to live in 2003 so I doubt that 100% figure very much.
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#4Or, maybe not. Really hard to say with no possibility of ever knowing for sure! So, stupid article is stupid.
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#6This is an awful title for an article.
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#7No. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/10/15/what-kille...
It seems that both the title article and yours say exactly the same thing: "Steve Jobs' might be alive today if he had the surgery immediately when it was first recommended to him." The title article is very inflammatory. Your link is much more balanced: cancer is a bitch, and it's impossible to know anything about it with certainty.
But the difference between the two articles is purely style, not substance, in my opinion.
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#8He had six months to live in 2003 so I doubt that 100% figure very much.
It might have been if he had a normal pancreatic cancer, but, as has been pointed out in numerous informed sources, islet cell carcinoma is very slow-acting. His initial prognosis was presumably fairly good.
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#9Better commentary on the same issue (the actual underlying blog post by a doctor and Steve Jobs fan cited by the blog linked to by LaGrange):
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-death-of-s...
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#10This is an awful title for an article.
The content is not much better either.
There should be a name for this flood of terrible linkbait articles that are trying to tenuously link the author's pet opinion to the Jobsian halo.
Top 3 so far:
"Jobs the Conservative" (He owned a business, so forget about all that Buddhist stuff and giving money to gay rights, he was a right wing conservative dammit)
"Jobs the Philanthropist" (He may never have actually given much money to charity, but by creating a huge business that provided jobs, some of those people must have given money to charity, so he was possibly the greatest philanthropist ever)
"Jobs the Suicide Case" (He possibly didn't immediately take the most drastic medical advice available, and I hear he was into all that alternative medicine stuff, so that must have meant he really killed himself probably)