Steve Jobs' private memorial service to be held today*
Two days after his passing on Wednesday, family and friends of Steve Jobs will gather at an undisclosed location to celebrate the life and grieve the death of the visionary Apple co-founder.
A person familiar with the matter has said that the funeral will be a small, intimate gathering, according to the Wall Street Journal. Neither Apple nor the Jobs family is planning a public memorial for the former Apple chief.Â*
Apple chief executive Tim Cook, in a note to employees, announced that the company would hold an event for staff to celebrate the life of Jobs in the near future. Â*
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple," Cook wrote. "We are planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon."Â*
In lieu of an official memorial, the public has turned the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York, into a makeshift site of remembrance. Flowers, apples and hundreds of yellow post-it notes now adorn the protective barriers surrounding the construction area of the iconic glass cube that serves as the store's entrance.Â*
The New York site is not the only location to see visitors paying tribute to Jobs, as Apple stores around the world have become impromptu memorials.Â*
A makeshift memorial for Jobs in front of the Michigan Avenue Apple store in Chicago | Source: WBEZ Chicago
Apple memorialized Jobs on the homepage of their website, Wednesday, with a portrait of the former CEO, and the words "Steve Jobs 1955-2011."Â*
"We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much," Cook wrote.Â*
Apple also provided an email address to which well-wishers can send their messages, stories and condolences.
A person familiar with the matter has said that the funeral will be a small, intimate gathering, according to the Wall Street Journal. Neither Apple nor the Jobs family is planning a public memorial for the former Apple chief.Â*
Apple chief executive Tim Cook, in a note to employees, announced that the company would hold an event for staff to celebrate the life of Jobs in the near future. Â*
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple," Cook wrote. "We are planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon."Â*
In lieu of an official memorial, the public has turned the company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York, into a makeshift site of remembrance. Flowers, apples and hundreds of yellow post-it notes now adorn the protective barriers surrounding the construction area of the iconic glass cube that serves as the store's entrance.Â*
The New York site is not the only location to see visitors paying tribute to Jobs, as Apple stores around the world have become impromptu memorials.Â*
A makeshift memorial for Jobs in front of the Michigan Avenue Apple store in Chicago | Source: WBEZ Chicago
Apple memorialized Jobs on the homepage of their website, Wednesday, with a portrait of the former CEO, and the words "Steve Jobs 1955-2011."Â*
"We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much," Cook wrote.Â*
Apple also provided an email address to which well-wishers can send their messages, stories and condolences.
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I think Tim took a long long time composing that one sentence. So much could be read into it if one wanted to do that.
Remembering Steve Jobs
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=133651
I'm not sure if Steve would have been inclined to abide strict religious procedures by the letter. That didn't seem like his style. While he described himself as a Buddhist, he probably took an organic, fluid, and personal interpretation to heart, not something based in Buddhist formality.
His views were more a blend of philosophies from several Eastern Philosophies. He was not a staunch follower of any one philosophy, but he definitely abhorred Dogma--another view I shared before knowing him.
We never set aside time for any one type of holiday. During our Christmas parties it was a collage of traditions on display.
If the doctrine of one school said you needed to be cremated in 24 hours, and some other school said 72 hours or a week or whatever, I don't think Steve would have blindly followed such dogma. After all, he was the guy who chose his own path, not someone following the instructions written by some old guy with a long white beard who has been dead for centuries.
Formal religious doctrine is about control. Steve was about being choosing your own destiny, one day at a time.
He died, that's it.
This is a cultural difference between the US and UK (and Australia/NZ too, I think). It's an odd euphemism to use when one isn't really necessary. The death of someone you care about is desperately sad and painful no matter how you describe it. Passed Away or Passed just seem like very strange terms to use to me - almost like trying to pretend they haven't died at all. Al least, that how it seems to someone from across the pond.
At least those sick haters from Westboro Baptist didn't have the chance to picket his funeral. One thing that made my blood boil was seeing a comment from a religious supremacist bemoaning about Steve not knowing Jesus, and thus was condemned to an imaginary dungeon of eternal hell.
Yeah, I think Westboro Baptist are pretty sick picketing the funerals they do anyway, I really hope they don't get anywhere near Steve. I don't believe in one true wayism and I have a hard time believing that people who believe in a religion that doesn't' even believe in a hell can end up0 there just cuz they don't think Jesus was the dude