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

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This goes mainstream on 60 Minutes this Sunday.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/...20123269.shtml

"I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened...I didn't want to be violated in that way,'" Isaacson recalls. So he waited nine months, while his wife and others urged him to do it, before getting the operation, reveals Isaacson. Asked by Kroft how such an intelligent man could make such a seemingly stupid decision, Isaacson replies, "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking...we talked about this a lot," he tells Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it....I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."

He was biopsied and had the simpler form that an operation would normally cure. He waited nine months and then had the operation. But by that time, it had spread, and the docs couldn't get it all.