Apple CEO Tim Cook Offered To Give Steve Jobs His Liver To Save His Life But He Refused

A new biography book about Steve Jobs which is due to be released later this month, reveals that Apple CEO, Tim Cook once tried to offer Steve Jobs his liver in a desperate bid to prolong his life, but his predecessor refused. Jobs had been suffering serious health problems as a result of his pancreatic cancer and by January 2009 - 2 years before his death, was in urgent need of a liver transplant.

On learning this, Cook was so upset he took it upon himself to have his blood tested and found that he happened to have the same rare blood type as his good friend and mentor.

"In Becoming Steve Jobs", a new biography by technology reporter Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor, Rick Tetzeli, it's revealed that Cook discovered it was possible to transplant a portion of someone's liver to a recipient.

Because it is a regenerative organ, the transplanted portion will grow to a functioning size, while the donor's liver would also repair.

According to excerpts from the book, Cook visited Jobs at his home in to relay the good news, but Jobs outright refused. 'He cut me off at the legs, almost before the words were out of my mouth. No," he said. "I'll never let you do that. I'll never do that".

Cook insisted that he was 'perfectly healthy' and stressed that the procedure would not put him at risk. But Jobs 'popped up in bed' and told him: 'No, I'm not doing that.'

He died at his home on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Sources: Fast Company / BBC