"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."