[Tribune7]

Jobs, in his final meeting with Isaacson in mid-August, still held out hope that there might be one new drug that could save him. He also wanted to believe in God and an afterlife.

"Ever since I've had cancer, I've been thinking about (God) more. And I find myself believing a bit more. Maybe it's because I want to believe in an afterlife. That when you die, it doesn't just all disappear," Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying.

"Then he paused for a second and he said 'yeah, but sometimes I think it's just like an on-off switch. Click and you're gone," Isaacson said of Jobs. "He paused again, and he said: And that's why I don't like putting on-off switches on Apple devices."

R.I.P. Steve

[Strk321]

We all start feeling very religious when we know the end is near. I think about that hilarious confession list Ted Kennedy sent to the Pope. Here was a guy who probably never took religion seriously after the age of 15, and then suddenly when he was stricken with brain cancer, “Uh oh. Better repent just in case.”

Also remember Jobs saying (paraphrased) “Everybody wants to live if you think about it. Even the man who wants to go to Heaven doesn’t want to die first to get there.”

[xp38]

God? What is this God talk? After he died I read he had been a Buddhist. That must be where he gets that on off switch analogy. Nirvana ain’t suddenly so compelling when you are facing it and you are Steve Jobs. Sounds a bit like a no atheists in foxholes moment.