2005年，乔布斯在斯坦福的毕业典礼讲话上提到死亡，也许他从自己的癌症知道离死亡不远，他论到死亡，他的那一段话耐人寻味：死亡是生命改变的代理，死亡清理了旧的，给新的开一个条路。这看似乐观，却透露出悲观，因为乔布斯并不知道什么是新的，所以，乔布斯告诉斯坦福的毕业生，他们的时间是有限的，因为死亡是所有人必然的目的地。乔布斯还说，没有人能够逃脱死亡。

没错，“人人都有一死”，死亡也不是终极，但死亡之后的去向呢？

为乔布斯的家人祈祷。

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

乔布斯在斯坦福大学的讲话稿：

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html