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Rahvin
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Message 6 of 30 (639835)
11-04-2011 11:34 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by shadow71
11-01-2011 10:49 AM


"She concluded her eulogy by sharing Jobs’ final moments, which were spent staring lovingly at his family, and his final three monosyllabic words as he stared into the distance past their shoulders: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
As a Roman Catholic I believe in life after death in an existence that is too wonderful to actually know.
I wonder, if and what effect , these last words of Jobs had on the memembers of this Forum
"OH WOW."
I'm not sure how those words can convey deep religious significance. Is the meaning somehow altered by the fact that his life was ending at the moment?
To be perfectly frank, given what we know about brain and body processes at the end of life, I don't see how magically peering into a "realm" of which we are totally ignorant and which is supported by no evidence at the moment just before death as his brain and body functions shut down is a more likely explanation than that he simply felt a sense of euphoria or pain, possibly with some degree of hallucination, as is proven to be common when the brain begins to shut down.
Why would those simple, utterly vague words convey any significant meaning to me? He didn't describe anything. It's hard to choose a pair of words that convey less information than "OH WOW."

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Message 11 of 30 (639852)
11-04-2011 1:09 PM
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11-04-2011 12:54 PM


It to me just seemed as his sister described it that he was at peace. I hope that is true and he died at peace.
It's conceivable that he felt an overwhelming sense of euphoria as his body shut down. It's impossible for us to know what he really felt, but I'm sure we all hope he died peacefully, as opposed to in pain.

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Message 16 of 30 (639870)
11-04-2011 2:07 PM
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11-04-2011 1:55 PM


I have found myself calling out, "OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
But it was the petit mort, not the big one.
Pretty big, though.
If I said "OH WOW" under those circumstances, I think she'd ask me to stop.

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Message 21 of 30 (639907)
11-04-2011 7:31 PM
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11-04-2011 3:20 PM


Wow.
AbE: Okay, I admit that I exercised literary license to claim exclamations of Oh Wow at such moments, merely for cheap humorous effect.
The truth is that the howling leaves no breath available.
I'm not noisy.
She is.
I usually take that to mean I did a good job.

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