Did Steve Jobs' Faith in Alternative Remedies Kill Him?

UPDATE II: An interesting but sad article, about "Steve Jobs [who] created what Shakespeare called 'the brightest heaven of invention.' But his life sounded like the darkest hell of volatility." Read The New York Times, The Limits of Magical Thinking.


UPDATE: And what alternative remedies did he try, against the advice of family and friends, "a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, the book says, before finally having surgery. Read the Washington Post, New book suggests Jobs rebelled his whole life and threatened ‘thermonuclear war’ vs. Google.

Did he use a Mac or an iPad to do those searches?

"Steve Jobs had a mild form of cancer that is not usually fatal, but seems to have ushered along his own death by delaying conventional treatment in favor of alternative remedies, a Harvard Medical School researcher and faculty member says. Jobs's intractability, so often his greatest asset, may have been his undoing." Read Gawker, Steve Jobs Probably Doomed Himself With Alternative Medicine.