He doesn't qualify under the guidelines, yet, like Mickey Mantle who died shortly after getting a new liver, and depriving someone who actually could be
cured with one, should Jobs just because he is rich do this?

Whaddaya think?

I am sure some Chinese prisoner will volunteer a liver for him for the right price.

Just stopped to say hello david s

Thought it was his pancreas.

Could be his gonads. We'll never know, because there is, of course, no link for this story.

It appears his newest illness spread to the liver.

He does have pancreatic cancer, and who knows how he has lived a decade (though they claim his is not the ultra serious kind, but its still fatal, just slower
they say).

So he needs a liver transplant and that is the direct reason he quit supposedly.

Hi back Cutecat.

Well, if it is his liver, that is a fairly successful transplant. I wish him well. He may be a PITA to work with, but he has been an innovator in computers and in iPods. Considering that he got thrown out of his own company by the Pepsi-Cola man (who didn't know a computer from a kumquat but thought it was all about SELLING), he has had a remarkable career.

May he live and continue.

This is a second illness, probably advancing from the other, spreading

the point is, with his pancreatic cancer going to kill him sooner rather than later (though its not the same type that kills in 3 months, usually a decade, and its been almost that long already), it is taking a real person's life away (as liver's are rare, and transplants hard to come by)
Steve with his billions will ultimately buy one for a few months worth of life, but a real person will die who might have had 30 years on a new one.
Mickey Mantle killed another person for a frivolous few months. Certainly was not worth it.(as Mickey needed a liver because he was a drinker in the first
place, he should not have drunk and wouldn't need a liver).

If it were Joe Shmoo, with the same diagnosis, and no billions, Joe Shmoo would be told sorry, go home and die, you ain't worth it.