There isn't an amount of resources in the world that will protect you from cancer, despite what some claim. Like my grandma said, "it is your reward for surviving absolutely everything else that could have got you" (she beat 3 different kinds of cancer before losing to a 4th, with 'resources')

Pancreatic cancer. Still quite deadly. It has been 17 years since Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?si=TlgWzgQ7bD3Usvu3

> RIP. It still suprises me that people with resources die so early (he died at 74).

You don't know for how long he did have that disease, if anything, resources might have afforded him many more years of life at first place.So your comment strikes me as odd, given the fact that you can't judge how long did he live with such disease.

One of my friend's dad died from the same kind of cancer. Between the diagnosis and their death, 2 months passed, and that person had plenty of "resources"...

Bill pushed himself to his limits. I saw this first hand at General Magic, and heard the stories about the development of the Macintosh. People can wear themselves out.

I wouldnt consider 74 early.

Resources only help you reach your genetic potential, but if you’re just not built for longevity you still may not live long.

And some people with no resources, no reason to live, but have incredible genetics will linger for many years beyond what people think is possible, like a weed.

Unless you're getting preventative screenings frequently, pancreatic cancer can be one of those ones that don't show any symptoms til you're already in stage 4. And most normal doctors will tell you to not do large amounts of preventative screenings.

Life is not guaranteed. Once you've seen it happen a few times, you realize how stochastic death really is (or really, how stochastic living is). 74 is at least not the territory where people generally gasp at how young he was.