“‘Oh wow.’ Two words that can have many meanings,” ,” Christopher John Farley writes for The Wall Street Journal. “Steve Jobs’s sister Mona Simpson has a moving tribute in the New York Times detailing some of his final moments and his last words. According to the article… Jobs’s last words were ‘OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.’ (The words were rendered in all capital letters in the essay.)”
“People are fascinated by last words,” Farley writes. “They can be viewed as a summing up of a life. Because the person saying them has nothing left to gain (except in terms of their legacy), they can be seen by some as an honest a representation of a person’s true opinions as one can get in this life. And there’s a mystical quality to last words–we hear them and wonder if the person saying them can give us any insight or information about what’s really on the other side.”
“Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, in a recent interview on ’60 Minutes,’ said that in his final encounters with his subject, the Apple founder began to talk more about his thoughts on God and an afterlife,” Farley writes. “Was Jobs’s final wow somehow connected? Inventor Thomas Edison’s last words were close in spirit to Jobs’s reported exit line.”
Farley writes, “According to various sources, including the book ‘Edison: Inventing the Century’ by Neil Baldwin, hours before his death, Edison emerged from a coma, opened his eyes, looked upwards and said ‘It is very beautiful over there.'”
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A sister’s eulogy reveals Steve Jobs’ final words – October 30, 2011
“Rosebud!”…………
Steve is where the endless speculative opinions, skewed journalism, and anatomical boundaries — no longer matter. I cannot properly define what or where a better place implies–but do fervently believe that Steve is there now.
Four possibilities:
1. Morphine rush
2. Seeing God using his iPad
3. Realization “it’s just an off switch”
4. New product idea
People believe what they want to believe. You see flashes of light, you want to believe you’re looking at something. Someone says “OH WOW,” you may hope they’re seeing something.
No one “Knows.” Believe what you want. Don’t tell me you “Know.” It’s a great story, a fitting end. And a beautiful article.
‘I want a second opinion’ does it for me
BSOD on the gates of heaven?
“Powered by Microsoft” stamped on the Angel’s wings?
Makes about as much sense as the sky god nonsense getting spouted here. The good news is that he no longer suffers from Ca. The sad news is that he may have written his own death sentence with fad diets and ‘spirituality’ instead of science when his tumor was found on a Renal Stone CT.
So much for the value of being spiritual.
Turns out Heaven also has a large glass spiral staircase….
Oh Wow – It’s full of stars!
Maybe Steve dropped acid one last time? OH WOW OH WOW OW WOW…
My sister, just before she died, said “Oh wow!”……………………..we all wondered what she meant and decided it was something quite beautiful.
“OH WOW, OH WOW, OH WOW”, God isn’t Buddhist.
heaven. I believe there will be an App for that.
A Blue Screen descended before Steve’s eyes. He was expecting a Gray Screen…
You’ll never know what the last words meant, will you?!
No, not true.
We will all know… eventually.
There are many often times what calls itself ‘science’ is not fact at all but philosophy. There is a big difference between scientific facts and scientific philosophy.
Neither Creation nor Evolution can be conclusively proved: both are a matter of faith and philosophy, of a choice of presuppositions.
I am so grateful for all the people who know with impunity the truth of the mystery. It’s known as a mystery, for a reason…
If our brains were simple enough to understand … Then we would not be able to understand it…
So goes the universe… Enjoy the mystery… OH WOW OH WOW OH WOW…
Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough in my initial post:
Steve is just rotting in the ground because that is all that’s left of him. No soul. No heaven. No hell.
“Oh wow” meant he was really excited to finally be exited this absurdly religious world, with absolute certainty. A ghost told me so.
I think he was bummed he wasn’t going to see the next World Of Warcraft expansion.
What I’ll be saying when I croak again:
“Finally! I hope it sticks this time.”
;-D
Complete relief from the pain he’s had to deal with over all these years… Jobs was certainly no Christian so let’s get that whole BS out of the way. What happens after one finally loses consciousness is not even worth debating. Why bother? Most likely, we just return to the state before we were born. Do you remember what you were doing before you were born? Steve felt all the pain go away. That’s worthy of “OH WOW!”
It’s very sad to hear that he was not a Christian. He might have seen the angel of death seconds before his death.
I say he was having a Flashback to one of his Acid Trips! ;-P …….but seriously, I’ve been with many people during their last moments and most of them were too drugged or in too much pain to utter any prophetic words. Steve wasn’t a god, he was simply another human being and we are all going to die someday, so what’s the hurry to know what it’s like? When you die your body starts preparing for death and it releases all kinds of toxins and chemicals to prepare it for decay. Why is dying so important to the living? Except as a reminder we better live it while we got it and love those close to us here every single day!!!
Steve, besides of a CEO, had experienced what’s beyond the usual way to live one’s everyday existence. As many, some psychedelic experiences are just giving a glimpse of the passage from life to death. When, having experienced that, you leave the world, you just go back home into “something” your consciousness already knows. At this point, your vanishing ego can just enjoy and go “Wow”!
Is it just me, or do people usually say ‘Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow’ when something is amazing. What if it was more like “oh no, oh no, oh no? I really hope it was oh wow though.