Oh Wow!!

In the beautiful and touching eulogy, Steve Job's sister, Mona Simpson, wrote about how his brother prepared for his death.

As he knew that he was dying soon, he prepared for it by meeting the people that he wants to meet, saying goodbyes to his friends and treasuring each moment with his family. He approached his impending death with equanimity, knowing that death is as natural as life.

His last words as he drew his final breaths were, "Oh Wow!! Oh Wow! Oh Wow!!".

In his death Steve Jobs shows the person that he is. He faced it with courage and acceptance. He also let go of all his earthly attachments, simply just welcoming his final journey.

Even with his last breaths, he demonstrated his fearlessness because as a Buddhist, he knew that there was nothing to fear about death.

His final exclamations seems to indicate the beautiful rewards that he was going towards.

Because he has done so much for the world, the kinds of gifts that he has given to man-kind and the life that he lived, Steve Jobs generated a lot of good karma.

Therefore, when he died, he was shown the kind of paradise that his good karma has prepared for him. And that is why he go towards his next journey with no fear, with no reluctance and at peace.

And that is a good way to die...