everyone is hemmed in by their circumstances. Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer, and all his billions could do nothing to prevent his death. We are all in the same boat, it's just some of us don't really see it.
He turned down treatment early on that he later regretted. It's true he would die eventually anyway. Life and death can be used to describe anything that lives including the individual.
he did! but did Steve Jobs singlehandedly invent that treatment? nope! So even then, his reliance on existing constructs that were not created by him-"self" is quite obvious.
And the person(s) who made those treatments sacrificed collective opportunities to do so. We are all individuals, talking to crowds is best done by talking to individuals in the crowd. Dare I go too far.... The collective can't exist until we give up portion of our mind to others that themselves are individuals. The link doesn't exist outside our individual imagination.