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By Eric Mack, PCWorld Oct 11, 2011 7:52 AM
Apple will hold a memorial service for Steve Jobs on Oct. 19 in an amphitheater at the company’s corporate headquarters, CEO Tim Cook told employees in a company-wide e-mail.
"Although many of our hearts are still heavy, we are planning a celebration of his life for Apple employees to take time to remember the incredible things Steve achieved in his life and the many ways he made our world a better place," Cook told employees in the e-mail, which was obtained by various news organizations.
Over the weekend Santa Clara County officials released Jobs' official death certificate, which lists "respiratory arrest" caused by a "metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor" as the cause of death. The certificate also shows he died at home and that no autopsy was performed, according to Bloomberg.Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2003. As he noted in his now-famous Stanford commencement speech a few years later, in an earlier diagnosis, a doctor had told him he had just a few months to live. Over the next eight years, Jobs would take multiple health-related leaves of absence from Apple and undergo a liver transplant in 2009. After resigning from his CEO post in August, he died Oct. 5, a day after Apple introduced the iPhone 4S.
The Oct. 19 remembrance of Jobs isn't the only one planned for next week. Entertainment Weekly reports that the Discovery Channel will air a documentary special – “iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World.” The one-hour program will be hosted by “Mythbusters” stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman and will premiere Oct. 16.
