There isn't an amount of resources in the world that will protect you from cancer, despite what some claim. Like my grandma said, "it is your reward for surviving absolutely everything else that could have got you" (she beat 3 different kinds of cancer before losing to a 4th, with 'resources')

Pancreatic cancer. Still quite deadly. It has been 17 years since Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture.

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo?si=TlgWzgQ7bD3Usvu3

Steve also, correct? Wonder if it has anything to do with the chemical dumping in silicon valley.

Jeff Raskin too. Three key people at various points in the original Macintosh’s development.

There were a lot of Superfund sites in Silicon Valley.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/lens/the-superfund-sites-...

Bill pushed himself to his limits. I saw this first hand at General Magic, and heard the stories about the development of the Macintosh. People can wear themselves out.

I wouldnt consider 74 early.

It is early.

“A 60-year-old male in the US can expect to live until about age 82”

Pancreatic cancer usually is hard to detect until it’s reached an advanced stage. We really should invest more into research

It's not "he was so young", but it's still a few years shy of "he had a good, long life" IMO.

Unless you're getting preventative screenings frequently, pancreatic cancer can be one of those ones that don't show any symptoms til you're already in stage 4. And most normal doctors will tell you to not do large amounts of preventative screenings.

> RIP. It still suprises me that people with resources die so early (he died at 74).

You don't know for how long he did have that disease, if anything, resources might have afforded him many more years of life at first place.So your comment strikes me as odd, given the fact that you can't judge how long did he live with such disease.

One of my friend's dad died from the same kind of cancer. Between the diagnosis and their death, 2 months passed, and that person had plenty of "resources"...

A friend of mine's diagnosis to death was less than a week. It all happened so fast, they couldn't process what had just happened.

It happened during a family reunion for Christmas, so at least everyone was present.

Resources only help you reach your genetic potential, but if you’re just not built for longevity you still may not live long.

And some people with no resources, no reason to live, but have incredible genetics will linger for many years beyond what people think is possible, like a weed.

People without resources or purpose are a weed?

Like a weed, in the sense of living in spite of ones circumstances. For example, a person with limited resources living for a long time, which is like a weed with little sunlight still growing from a crack in concrete.

In contrast to some house plants that are meticulously watered and cared for in perfect conditions, and yet they still die in a week.

Life is not guaranteed. Once you've seen it happen a few times, you realize how stochastic death really is (or really, how stochastic living is). 74 is at least not the territory where people generally gasp at how young he was.

Gompertz mortality curve. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz%E2%80%93Makeham_law...