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Have you seen Steve Jobs lately? We are literally watching the man be eaten away by cancer. I am not sure if he has much of a choice in the matter.

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My dad died of pancreatic cancer. All I can say when I see Steve is, "Looks familiar." Sadly.

Wasn't he cured?

He apparantly had a heart attack a couple days ago.

Are you talking about the fake CNN iReport?

Probably, but there's always a risk that it might come back. Or it could be something else all together. Either way he won't live forever.

You can't cure cancer. He was successfully treated and I believe the cancer went into remission, but to say the prognosis is grim might be the understatement of the millenium. Less than 5% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive 5 years. Median survival is only 3-6 months from diagnosis. It is an extremely efficient killer.

> Less than 5% of those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive 5 years.

It's my understanding that pancreatic cancer survival rates vary significantly by type and that Jobs has an (extremely) rare type that has fairly good survival rates.

I hope so.

Yeah. He's skinny. So what. Lots of monks are that skinny. He's obviously nearly completed his metamorphosis into the first of the aliens that will whisk us away in a few years. That doesn't mean he's gonna die, it just means he is becoming so good at manipulating the reality distortion field and his psychic energies that the lower aspects of his body is burning away. He's good. You don't say a caterpillar is dying because it's turning into a butterfly. Steve's Jobs slow transformation into a grey isn't any different then that.

You should of read this all on your iPhone already, if you can figure out the secret gesture to unlock it, if you want him to come pick you up with his UFO brethren.

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