According to his biography, he did initially try to cure his cancer by going fruitarian. Obviously, the cancer got worse instead of better, and he ended up need

According to his biography, he did initially try to cure his cancer by going fruitarian. Obviously, the cancer got worse instead of better, and he ended up needing a transplant. I suspect (and I have nothing to go off of other than his biography) that he didn't actually completely expect the fruit diet to work, and may have simply believed that if it was his time to go, it was his time to go, but his wife may have eventually talked some sense into him. In America, normal humans can only be on a transplant list for their home state, but a few states also accept out-of-state folks who can travel to the state within X hours. This was obviously designed for people who live right on the border in a neighboring state, but Jobs was able to use his private jet to argue that he should be on the transplant lists for basically every state that accepts out-of-state people. The main point is that it's possible he took an organ from someone in TN, because he himself let his own cancer progress beyond the point of salvaging the organ.