Is this REALLY necessary?
Didn't really care for the chap...but stuff like this is simply TMI...and in poor taste to report.
How about just leaving the family alone?
Steve Jobs died at home from respiratory arrest and a pancreatic tumor, according to his death certificate, which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal. The certificate notes that Jobs died at 3pm on Wednesday, October 5. Shortly afterward, Apple placed his image on its home page, linked to a brief statement announcing his …
You mean to say "if you're squeamish, don't visit The Register" since the objectionable part of this article (and it's not just squeamish people that think this is lame) is just as evident in the headline visible on the homepage as in the article body.
Classy, Reg, living up to that vulture icon.
There's no way this could be considered journalistically as "Public has a right to know", and you're just courting the adclicks publishing this.
Shame on you El Reg; and I've never felt the need to post that in all the years I've been reading this site. Do the decent thing and remove this article.
And for the record, before anybody says "Well you shouldn't have clicked it then", I clicked the article with the specific and only intention of adding this comment.
Cause of death was, unfortunately, bleedin' obvious. The Reg's reporting of the death of Jobs has so far been ok but this article was pointless. We all die, at the top level, because we stop breathing. In the case of Steve Jobs, we know he battled with Cancer; so do we really bury ourselves a few layers of abstraction down to learn the actual root cause (which was already well known)?
... what are you? Royalty or something? That's incredibly arrogant. You speak for yourselves, and nobody else. You sure as blazes do not speak for me.
Nobody forces you to read about a topic that so clearly irritates you, and nobody forces you to not only open the article, but to click in the "Post your own message" section and start ranting like a frothing narcissistic imbecile.
Contrary to what your ego believes to be impossible, I _was_ genuinely interested in reading this short article. Given the Westboro Baptist Church's recent hypocritical shrieks, I did wonder whether they actually carried out their threat to picket the funeral, or were merely making an empty threat. It appears not, and the Jobs family got to say their farewells in peace. Which is actually good news, for once.
Another way to view Steve’s life is that he was a champion of Corporate America. One could say Apple is a poster child for the power, prestige and success of Corporate America. However, Steve can also be viewed as a victim of the same Corporate system and its greed. His cancer could have been cured, because one of the biggest “secret” in US medicine, is that there is already a breakthrough Cancer cure. Unfortunately, the patent holder has not toed the Pharmaceutical Industry line: hence the US FDA has hampered availability of the cure for public use.
Check out the Dr Burzynski story: http://bit.ly/lwVuXw
Oh please... instead of saying "the patent holder has not toed the Pharmaceutical Industry line" would it not have been more accurate to state "no independent trial has produced any evidence that his alleged treatments work". Oh wait, that's part of the immense cover-up put in place by "Corporate America" correct?
Cover ups – in the classic sense – Watergate style, secret files and Wikileaks are fast becoming a thing of the past. Governments now just play dumb and stare blankly at the investigators. In other words, if the public don’t get riled up about it, we can keep doing what we like; right or wrong. The sheeple have been trained to believe the TV news and media; their trusting instincts allow these types of back stabbing conspiracies to flourish. But of course, people who have lost loved ones to cancer will not like to hear these sorts of tales. Who likes to be told they’ve been made a fool of?
Anyone who finds the post-mortem attention that Jobs is getting to be distasteful, needs to blame... Jobs himself, for all the ante-mortem attention he courted. Once someone is a celebrity, he remains a celebrity, even - and sometimes especially - in death. And once the wheels of the machine start turning, they are impossible to turn off.