[giantrobot]

He had an inoperable cancer and wanted to spend his remaining time doing what he wanted rather than sitting in a hospital getting ultimately fruitless treatments. Pancreatic cancer doesn't fuck around. It's not like he died of pneumonia because he loved sleeping outdoors in the rain.

[shepherdjerred]

What? That's not at all the case. The type of cancer that Jobs has could be surgically removed. He spent time receiving alternative treatments and delayed his surgery.

> Jobs had a rare form of the cancer, known as neuroendocrine cancer, which grows more slowly and is easier to treat

> GEP-NETs are slow growing tumors that have the potential to be cured surgically if the tumor is removed prior to metastasis.

> Many journalists mentioned and even focused on Jobs’ initial decision to forego conventional treatments and instead use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, including acupuncture, botanicals, and dietary changes.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pancreatic-cancer...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4924574/