Steve Jobs’ New Email to Fan: Life Is Fragile [Or How MacBooks, iPhones & Out Of the Box Ideas Can Save Lives]

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When talking about Apple we can have two kinds of people, those who love the company with all their heart and those who deeply hate it. But I guess they all respect Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative CEO’s we’ve seen so far.

And in a time where everyone is focusing on Steve Jobs’ reactions to the lost/stolen iPhones we’ll look at him from a different perspective. He, like everyone of us, is a mere mortal which has to face the same common problems we all have to face. When it comes to health issues, especially the ones Steve Jobs has gone through, and like him many others, there’s little you can do but hope that you will be lucky enough to find an organ donor whose actual death will save your life.

Of course when you’re Steve Jobs you can afford to fly across the country and find yourself a liver that will ultimately save your live and let you deliver more iPad and iPhone keynotes. Unfortunately not everyone can do that and Jobs knows it.

Therefore he went above and beyond, and I’d really like to think that any other rich and influential person in his shoes would have done the same, but clearly nobody did so far, and, together with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the government of California helped pass a simple bill that would help other people in need in the future.

What the new bill (State Senate Bill 1395) will do is to require every person that wants a new drivers’ license to specify whether he or she wants to be an organ donor. That way more people will know there is such a possibility and even more will chose the positive answer. That means that in case of unfortunate fatal accidents more people will be saved by those donated organs. And those people won’t have to pay extra cash to go to the required procedures of being listed on multiple organ lists across the country like Steve Jobs did a year before.

Steve Jobs’ support for this bill has been very important and that lead James, an Apple fan, to write this email to him:

Thank you, you’re awesome.

I lost my girlfriend on April 23, 2008 from melanoma which spread rapidly to her liver, 48 hours after we found out it spread to her liver she sadly passed away….she was only 24 and I think about her every day. I am so grateful you took time out to do this. My girlfriend and I are from Cupertino, since childhood, and it’s really nice to see the hometown hero take time out to do this.

Once again, thank you so much.

Sincerely,
James

To which Steve Jobs wrote back:

Your most welcome, James. I’m sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.

Steve

Sent from my iPad

That only goes to show that Steve Jobs’ hard work put into MacBooks, iPhones and all the other out-of-the-box ideas we love or hate actually paid off and made him the man he is today! The man whom we will admire for pushing this bill when he really didn’t have to!

Life is indeed fragile.

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