A three-year-old post on Facebook is currently being circulated again. The content: The supposed last words of Steve Jobs.
Seen on Facebook since 2015, this post is being shared again:

This is what it says there:
Steve Jobs' last words about his life and life as a whole.
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“I have reached the pinnacle of success in the business world.
In people's eyes, my entire life is considered an embodiment of success. However, apart from my work, I have little joy in my life. Ultimately, my wealth is just a fact of life that I'm used to. At this moment, as I lie in a hospital bed and look back over my entire life, I understand that all the recognition and all the wealth I was so proud of has lost value in the face of coming death. In the darkness, as I watch the green lights of the life support machines and listen to the mechanical hum of these machines, I feel the breathing of death coming closer and closer to me.
Now I know that we have to ask ourselves completely different questions in life that have nothing in common with wealth...
There must be something else there that proves to us to be much more important in life: perhaps it is an interpersonal relationship, perhaps art, perhaps even dreams in our childhood...
Non-stop pursuit of wealth turns a person into a puppet, which also applies to me has happened. God gave us such qualities as feelings for life so that we can convey the feeling of love to every heart. There should be no illusion about wealth.I can't take the wealth I've accumulated over the course of my life with me now. What I can take with me now are memories that are based on love and were created with love. This is the true wealth that must follow you every time, accompany you, give you strength and light to move on. Love can wander and travel wherever it wants. Because just like life, love knows no boundaries.
Go where you want to go. Reach the highlights in your life that you want to achieve. All the power for this lies in your hearts and your hands. “Which bed is considered the richest bed in the world?” – “It is the bed of a sick person”…
You may be able to afford a chauffeur who will drive the car for you. Or you can afford employees who would earn the money for you. But no one will be able to bear all your illnesses for you. You have to do this all by yourself. Material values and things that we once lost can be found again. But there is one thing that if it is lost, it cannot be found again - and that is LIFE.
When a person moves towards an operating table, he suddenly understands that there is another book that he has not yet finished reading - and that is "The Book of a Healthy Life".
It doesn't matter what stage of life we are in right now. Each of us will sooner or later come to that moment when the curtain will fall on us.
Your wealth – this is the love for your family, this is the love for your wife and your husband, this is the love for your neighbors.
Take care of yourselves and worry about others.”
This text is also often shared with these images:

last words
Well, not quite. At least not in the case above. Even if the above sentences, which are more like a speech than “last words”, are undoubtedly inspiring, there is still some doubt that Jobs, who was already quite weak at the time of his death, rattled off these words in 2011 before he died died.
What speaks against Jobs saying that?
A lot of things. For example, the speech speaks of God. Steve Jobs, on the other hand has been a Zen Buddhist since he first came into contact with it at the age of 19.
Walter Isaacson also wrote an official biography about Steve Jobs, so one would think that such an impressive speech before his death would be included in it, but that's not the case.
In addition, the wealth of which he is said to have been so proud is mentioned in several places. However, this contradicts the fact that since 1997, Jobs has only been paid one dollar a year as a symbolic annual salary , precisely because he was not interested in money (he certainly had enough from stock income), but rather in his vision.
That doesn't convince me! Is there any more proof?
Well, you're stubborn. Then here are his real last words, delivered by his sister Mona Simpson, who wrote in the New York Times
“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
Admittedly, these words are not as inspiring as the speech above. On the other hand, one can even ponder those last words.
Far be it from us to disparage the above speech by clarifying that it was not Steve Jobs' last words. The content is nonetheless worth considering. It's actually a shame that the text was only distributed because someone thought they had to attribute these words to Steve Jobs. And in a certain sense it worked, after all we are reporting on it here and thus also distributing the text.
It wasn't just Steve Jobs who said this. And the true creator remains unknown.
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