One of the sad rumors to break last week was that Steve Jobs may have six weeks to live. I’ve had several people close to me die of cancer. One stepmother was given a few months, but she actually lived more than a year and did a number of amazing things. Another stepmother died two days after the initial diagnosis, and my uncle died ugly in three months. I also recall a close friend who had saved his entire life to spend a rich retirement with his wife only to die from
deep vein thrombosis caused by too much air travel a year before he intended to retire.
