Brad Hircshfield fits Steve Jobs' cryptic last words into the broader discussion about the afterlife:
According to the Pew Forum’s U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, 74 percent of us believe in life after death. While Jobs’s comments could point to his seeing something beyond this world as he departed, he could just as easily have been calling out in recognition of the enormous finality of the moment. It could be that his words reflected the exact opposite of a hereafter – instead signaling the awesome awareness that his amazing life was really and fully over.
Mike Hayes compiles 24 other final quotes spoken by great figures in history. "I just shit myself" sadly didn't make the list.