Comment by melling

Steve Jobs tried to cure his pancreatic cancer with diet for 6 months. This might have given him more direction.

Pancreatic cancer has taken quite a few famous people:

    Randy Pausch - Last Lecture
    Steve Jobs
    Patrick Swayze
    Sally Ride - astronaut
    Piers Sellers - astronaut 
    Hans Rosling
    Richard Hatch
    Bill Hicks - Comedian
    Jef Raskin - Macintosh 
    Iain M Banks - Author

In the 12 years since Randy’s Last Lecture, we’ve made little progress:

https://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/