Pancreatic Cancer, Steve Jobs, Nobel Prize, and a good person

[selkirk]

This post is about three people all who passed away in October of this year and all died of Pancreatic Cancer.


Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56 in early October. After building up Apple he left the company they had a few failures.

Steve Jobs will be remembered for founding apple and creating friendly technology easy to use, best remembered for what he did when he came back.

he changed how we will listen to music, ipod, itunes, smart phone iphone, and the tablet which will be common to have more than one in the home in the future.

he would micromanage the company even had input on the advertising, in one ad they mention the greats of the 20th centurey, he made one change, he was listed and face was in the ad...he got rid of it.

he changed much, and realized that techonology is based on ease of use, and mobile. one of the greats.

sidenote: was going to buy Apple at 18 in the late 90s because they had 12 in cash and there was a chance Steve Jobs could turn it around...should have, just shows what brilliant management, leadership can accomplish.

thanks
selkirk

 

[selkirk]

the other two

the other two

Ralph Steinman won the nobel peasce prize for medicine along with two other associates.

the Canadian scientist who worked and did his research at Rockfeller University in New York...died of Pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 after fighting the diesease for four years.

he did work on improving vaccines against infectious dieseases and cancer.
therapeutic vaccines will attack cancer tumours.
his own work helped to prolong his life and thousands of others and will be the foundation for further research in this area. congrats, not bad for someone who most have never heard from, to bad the media could not cover these stories in more depth.

he died on friday and the award was announced on monday, it is not supposed to be awarded to people who have passed away, must be living.
they decided to make an exception, as they should.

his very important work will go on, and the family want to use the prize money to start a foundation that will fund the research (cancer) of young researchers. :toast:


Finally my neighbour passed on Thanksgivng day, in his early 50s, he had pancreatic cancer.

was not feeling well late last fall, and after some tests found out he had cancer. a specialist told him in early 2011 that he hoped he enjoyed his Christmas because he would not see another one...
maybe a little too frank however better to be honest.

anyways he fought it, taking chemo and a new drug just recently developed (read above).

the chemo did not take much out of him and seemed to help, his chances were 50/50 with the new drug... but the new drug (which costs 7000+ a month).

the drug stopped working and he was taken off of it, even near the end though he was taken vehicles off the road and planning for the worse was talking about going to tests to do more chemo. though it spread and died shortly after...before anymore treatments...it just spread.

he fought the diesease like he lived, he built a house in the time most people talk about it, a wrap around deck that was increadible. buildings built. he would work 12 hour days, and always be busy.

kind, hard working and ambitious, and strong and healthy until the end, never giving up until the end.

Here is to three great people who made the world better.

:toast:

thanks
selkirk

 

[IE]

excellent post selkirk...

thanks for bringing everything in life into perspective.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

I'll 2nd that--:toast:

-your neighbor reminds me of my father--and I will be experiencing same loss you did with your neighbor--probably within the week.

 

[MadJack]

I'll 2nd that--:toast:

-your neighbor reminds me of my father--and I will be experiencing same loss you did with your neighbor--probably within the week.

Sorry to hear that, Wayne. Losing Dad is a hard pill to swallow. All we have left are the good memories and positive thoughts to get us through the loss. I'm sure your Dad was a good man and lived a good full life. All the best, buddy, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

 

[selkirk]

Sorry to hear the news Wayne, take some time, gather with family and friends. share the memories.

wish you and your family the best.

thanks
selkirk