"'Oh wow.' Two words that can have many meanings," ," Christopher John Farley writes for The Wall Street Journal. "Steve Jobs's sister
Mona Simpson has a moving tribute in the New York Times detailing some of his final moments and his last words. According to the article… Jobs's last words were 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.' (The words were rendered in all capital letters in the essay.)"
"People are fascinated by last words," Farley writes. "They can be viewed as a summing up of a life. Because the person saying them has nothing left to gain (except in terms of their legacy), they can be seen by some as an honest a representation of a person's true opinions as one can get in this life. And there's a mystical quality to last words–we hear them and wonder if the person saying them can give us any insight or information about what's really on the other side."
"Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson, in a recent interview on '60 Minutes,' said that in his final encounters with his subject, the Apple founder began to talk more about his thoughts on God and an afterlife," Farley writes. "Was Jobs's final wow somehow connected? Inventor Thomas Edison's last words were close in spirit to Jobs's reported exit line."
Farley writes, "According to various sources, including the book 'Edison: Inventing the Century' by Neil Baldwin, hours before his death, Edison emerged from a coma, opened his eyes, looked upwards and said 'It is very beautiful over there.'"
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