The last words of Steve Jobs, on his deathbed, were OH WOW, OH WOW, OH WOW. This is what his sister, Mona Simpson, reported in the eulogy she gave at his memorial service.

Though she is a novelist and could possibly have shaped this phrase for its dramatic effect, still it rings true to the man. While living, he was prepared for wonder and, next to death, might well have called out in a kind of ecstasy.

This way of dying fulfills what I once wrote long ago: “How can anyone on the brink of dying not be filled with an almost insane wonder?”