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Steve Jobs is Dead! I Mean... Alive! (Erroneous Obituary Published)

by Jordan Yerman | August 28, 2008 at 08:08 am

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What, is it that slow a news day that Bloomberg had to spice things up by declaring Apple honcho Steve Jobs dead? Or, more likely, to they have an ongoing obituary file on hand in case he doesn't live to reach eighty-something? INdeed, it's common practice for news outfits to maintain bios on the great and the good for when their time comes to shuffle off this mortal coil, and great pains are taken for these missives to remain under wraps until they're needed for real.

The short-lived homage - quickly pulled - contained a heartwarming tribute from Bill Gates who described Jobs as the best inspirational leader he'd ever met, while the man himself is quoted as saying: "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me to make the big choices in life."

Though I bet Jobs didn't count on being quite so dead, quite so soon... Here's a snippet of the obituary itself, in case you were wondering (and you were wondering!). Sort of an iMemento Mori.

"Oh, he's not dead. At least not yet" - Obi Wan Kenobi

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tiha zaman

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at 08:22 on August 28th, 2008

haha..poor guy

Emilio Lizardo

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at 08:23 on August 28th, 2008

jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.

I didn't double-check before posting this, Jordan, but wasn't Jobs diagnosed with cancer last year, or earlier this year ?

Maybe they know something we don't know ...

BigT

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at 12:38 on August 28th, 2008

jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.

I guess the only reason why people would believe this in the first place is because there is this widespread belief that Jobs is near death anyways.

Amy Judd

at 14:51 on August 28th, 2008

How surreal would that be to see your obituary on a website, and to be sipping your coffee and wondering how it all got to that point...

Rob Peters

at 15:09 on August 28th, 2008

It sounds like the premise for a bad Hollywood movie. In fact I think I just saw a trailer for a movie that was exactly like that. This guy dies but doesn't realize it and is actually in purgatory and can walk through people because he's a ghost and has to right all the wrongs in his life before he can either become alive again or go to heaven.