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Steve Jobs tried to cure his pancreatic cancer with diet for 6 months. This might have given him more direction. Pancreatic cancer has taken quite a few famous

Steve Jobs tried to cure his pancreatic cancer with diet for 6 months. This might have given him more direction. Pancreatic cancer has taken quite a few famous people: Randy Pausch - Last Lecture Steve Jobs Patrick Swayze Sally Ride - astronaut Piers Sellers - astronaut Hans Rosling Richard Hatch Bill Hicks - Comedian Jef Raskin - Macintosh Iain M Banks - Author In the 12 years since Randy’s Last Lecture, we’ve made little progress: https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/ https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/

sailfast 7y ago
Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Aretha Franklin, Pavarotti, Sharon Jones, Alan Rickman, Dizzie Gillespie, Patrick Swayze, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wernher von Braun, John von Neumann... I hope they lick this thing along with so many other forms of this that just destroy quality of life.
- WarDores 7y ago
  RBG is still alive...
  - sailfast 7y ago
    Indeed! Originally had a few other folks on that list (Trebek, my mom) that were alive and forgot to remove RBG. Please forgive my error.
theprotocol 7y ago
Another famous person currently fighting it is Alex Trebek. Stage IV. And sadly, he just had a relapse.
- bsanr2 7y ago
  I'm surprised no one has mentioned Satoru Iwata or Satoshi Kon yet. Both were fairly high-profile losses because of their reputations and how suddenly they left us. Kon's farewell letter was also somewhat remarkable because of the Japanese taboo, at the time, of speaking about cancer: https://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words https://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words
  - theprotocol 7y ago
    You're right. And thank you for that link.
bitL 7y ago
Steve Jobs had one of the mildest, non-aggressive forms of pancreatic cancer; had he taken chemo, he would be 99% here today. Instead he let it grow until there was no hope anymore. Fruitarian diet seems like the worst possible one for pancreas...
- BurningFrog 7y ago
  I guess that's the downside of a contrarian "Think different" mindset. Sometimes if you "zig" while the whole world "zags", you build the biggest company in the world. And sometimes you die from very treatable cancer.

sailfast 7y ago

Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Aretha Franklin, Pavarotti, Sharon Jones, Alan Rickman, Dizzie Gillespie, Patrick Swayze, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wernher von Braun, John von Neumann... I hope they lick this thing along with so many other forms of this that just destroy quality of life.

WarDores 7y ago
RBG is still alive...
- sailfast 7y ago
  Indeed! Originally had a few other folks on that list (Trebek, my mom) that were alive and forgot to remove RBG. Please forgive my error.

theprotocol 7y ago

Another famous person currently fighting it is Alex Trebek. Stage IV. And sadly, he just had a relapse.

bsanr2 7y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Satoru Iwata or Satoshi Kon yet. Both were fairly high-profile losses because of their reputations and how suddenly they left us. Kon's farewell letter was also somewhat remarkable because of the Japanese taboo, at the time, of speaking about cancer: https://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words https://www.makikoitoh.com/journal/satoshi-kons-last-words
- theprotocol 7y ago
  You're right. And thank you for that link.

bitL 7y ago

Steve Jobs had one of the mildest, non-aggressive forms of pancreatic cancer; had he taken chemo, he would be 99% here today. Instead he let it grow until there was no hope anymore. Fruitarian diet seems like the worst possible one for pancreas...

BurningFrog 7y ago
I guess that's the downside of a contrarian "Think different" mindset. Sometimes if you "zig" while the whole world "zags", you build the biggest company in the world. And sometimes you die from very treatable cancer.