On October 16th Steve Jobs’ sister Mona Hill delivered a touching eulogy at the memorial service of the deceased technology icon, here’s what she had to say about his final moments as published by the NYT today.
Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us.
He started his farewell and I stopped him. I said, “Wait. I’m coming. I’m in a taxi to the airport. I’ll be there.”
“I’m telling you now because I’m afraid you won’t make it on time, honey.”
When I arrived, he and his Laurene were joking together like partners who’d lived and worked together every day of their lives. He looked into his children’s eyes as if he couldn’t unlock his gaze. Until about 2 in the afternoon, his wife could rouse him, to talk to his friends from Apple. Then, after awhile, it was clear that he would no longer wake to us.
Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.
Steve’s final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
Read the whole thing in it’s entirety HERE.
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Very moving. RIP Steve
It makes you wonder what he saw… it must have been pretty impressive.
fuck. that made me cry.
i’m gonna go trick or treating at my momma’s house now – it’s gonna freak her the fuck out.
rest in peace steve.
so many think God just doesn’t exist but he does.
if he does he is one sick fuck.
how does this proof god existence?
it doesn’t
that;s why its called faith.
That’s why I choose rationality so I wont be another close-minded human being.
damn you dudes turned this blog post into something it didn’t need to be.
why, niggas?
why?
This made me cry….R.I.P Steve…Blessed to be apart of your innovated era
this was sho nuff a doosie.
Perhaps an imagination came to his mind of his new invention that would’ve changed the world dramatically. He got so astonished of his vision and left this world with the following words: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.