Did Steve Jobs have to die when he did?

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A debate has broken out on a remarkably sober web site called Quora on whether Steve Jobs really had to die when he did.

Ramzi Amri, who is described as a Harvard Medical School researcher and faculty member, posted that based on his own cancer research, Jobs had a type of cancer which is rarely fatal if it’s caught early, and HE thinks Jobs would probably have beaten it…if he hadn’t spent so much time on what HE calls “alternative mumbo-jumbo.”

Amri says the type of tumor Job had can be effectively treated simply by cutting it out. But because Jobs spent so much time dabbling with dietary treatments and other un-conventional therapy – the tumor got out of control.

When a writer at Gawker contacted Amri to verify who he was – and he is indeed a researcher at Harvard Medical school – he emphasized this was a personal opinion since he does not have access to Jobs medical records – but he doesn’t back down from his main point- that his research shows that tumors like the kind Steve Jobs had are RARELY fatal.

To quote his post, “Individual freedom of thought and choice is a cornerstone of our society…but there is no form of alternative medicine that has ever shown any efficacy towards treating this type of cancer… and the delay was tantamount to closing his eyes and wishing real hard that the cancer would go away.”

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