Steve Jobs died early due to his belief in "alternative" medicine

[SamIam]

I don't blame Jobs for turning to alternative medicine. Mainstream treatments have almost nothing to offer pancreatic cancer sufferers. Here's what one pancreatic cancer site has to say.

Survival Rates
According to the American Cancer Society, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 4%. These low survival rates are attributable to the fact that fewer than 20% of patients' tumors are confined to the pancreas at the time of diagnosis; in most cases, the malignancy has already progressed to the point where surgical removal is impossible

Progression
In patients where a cure is not possible, progression of the disease may be accompanied by progressive weakness, weight loss, and pain.

Wikipedia says the same thing, BTW - just with more scientific jargon.

So, if I were old Steve, I'd let modern medicine give it a shot, but if the treatment wasn't working (which it probably wasn't), why not experiment with alternative medicine?

I for one would not want to be kept alive for months, wracked with pain and getting weaker everyday and waiting for my inevitable death.

Yeah, maybe he died a little sooner, but he also had to endure less protracted suffering.