When the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs made news on Oct. 5, 2011, people across the nation reacted with shock, sorrow, and admiration for the technology pioneer’s cutting-edge ideas and products. “Steve Jobs changed the world” was a common theme across Twitter, Facebook, and newsstands. Pancreatic cancer takes the lives of more than 95 percent of patients within five years — and in recent years it has claimed the lives of actor Patrick Swayze and Carnegie Mellon computer science professor and YouTube sensation Randy Pausch, among others. Still, we were shocked to hear that Jobs had died.
