"The big thing was that he really was not ready to open his body," said Steve Jobs's wife...

... attempting to explain why Jobs avoided surgery for the cancer that ultimately killed him.

“It’s hard to push someone to do that.” She did try, however... “The body exists to serve the spirit,” she argued.

When he did take the path of surgery and science, Mr. Jobs did so with passion and curiosity, sparing no expense, pushing the frontiers of new treatments.

Notice the consistent theme: avoiding the conventional. (The Apple slogan was "Think Different." )

Just getting the obvious surgery... that's for drones... that's for... a garden of pure ideology... secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts... Our Unification of Thoughts... ordinary people who don't use Apple products....

Accordingly, first the diets and acupuncture and then pushing the frontiers of medicine...

Normalphobia.

I love the products that flowed from that fear, but cancer has its own ideas.



It can kill you.