<p>If you have any time this weekend, see this…blew me away</p>
<p><a href=“Dying Professor's Lecture of a Lifetime - ABC News”>http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3633945&page=1</a></p>
<p>My husband is an old colleague of Randy’s and flew to Pittsburgh to attend this lecture on Tuesday. I watched it live via webcast and cried (and laughed) all the way through it. He will be missed. :(</p>
<p>Just by luck, H ran into Randy and his wife in the airport the next morning, and got a chance to visit alone for a while. He was so grateful to be able to say goodbye to him.</p>
<p>great lecture - what a guy!</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing this.</p>
<p>I just saw this on our ABC News broadcast tonight. He is Person of the Week.</p>
<p>BTW, he is a lot better-looking than any CMU professor I had in my day! :)</p>
<p>Oh good, thanks - we’ll be sure to TiVo that.</p>
<p>Words to live by. This guy is amazing.</p>
<p>What an inspiration! He sounds like a terrific prof as well as a wonderful, humane, down to earth person. I hope that when my time comes, to leave with as much grace as he displays.
Thanks so much for sharing the video.</p>
<p>You can watch the entire video on the CMU website (with no commercials):</p>
<p><a href=“News | Entertainment Technology Center”>News | Entertainment Technology Center;
<p>Everyone should watch this!!</p>
<p>Wow, I just watched the whole lecture on abc news online. This professor seems like not only an amazing teacher, but an amazing person. Not everyone is given that opportunity to speak to a wide audience, or any audience, before they die, but this man has left a legacy and message of lessons from his life that will impact others’ lives Not only are his messages inspirational, but his being able to deliver it, is also inspirational. Hope you watch.</p>
<p>I agree. I’ve already emailed the link to my kids. I’m thinking about sending it to all of the people that I care about.</p>
<p>That is incredibly inspirational and uplifting. Sad, too. But clearly this man is dealing with the end of his life in an extremely positive way, something we can all take an example from.</p>
<p>This hits me hard for a couple reasons. My best friend died a couple years ago at 51 of pancreatic cancer…it’s not a pleasant way to go, as Dr Pausch alluded to. And my son is a 2005 graduate of CMU School of Computer Science. I’ve emailed him the link. Curious to find out this weekend if S was fortunate to have known the man.</p>
<p>He’s facing this with such bravery and humor, I can only imagine the private agony he’s going through, knowing he won’t be there to see his kids grow up.</p>
<p>This was in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal and I emailed it around to my friends. He is amazing.</p>
<p>Good friend and riding buddy got the news from M.D. Anderson Monday that his prostate cancer is back for it’s third try at killing him. To top it off his tumors in his kidney have started to grow again. Not a good week down home. Like the good Doctor Pausch, he has absolutely no signs anything is wrong and he feels great. Just goes to show us all that life is fleeting…plan accordingly.</p>
<p>Wow, amazing lecture. </p>
<p>FYI: This is the second time in one week that I’ve gotten the message to cherish those you care about because one day they will not be there. The first time happened Wednesday morning. At the end of my Classical Civilization section, I learned that one of the students in the class had died last Friday. (Sections are small. Maybe 20 students in that class? Lectures are larger, and I have one of those for this class as well.) I don’t know how he died. However, e graduated from a high school close to my university. I didn’t know him personally (apparently, he only made it to the first three section meetings), but the message still hit home.</p>
<p>I watched the speech on ABC News and realized that there was more to it, so I then went to the CMU site and watched the entire thing. It is incredible. When you finish it, you mourn for those who will miss this man as a family member, a friend, and a teacher more than for him because of his wonderful message.</p>
<p>local coverage:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-298.stm[/url]”>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-298.stm</a></p>
<p>I watched the lecture, and found it moving, inspiring and heartbreaking. This situation really puts things in perspective. From the article m&sdad linked:</p>
<p>'The treatments began in November and didn’t end until the following May. The low point, he wrote, was on Christmas Day of last year: “My wife and children were in Norfolk, and I was in Houston getting poison put in my veins. I was never depressed, but that was the day I was really squeezing the lemons hard to get lemonade.” '</p>
<p>and (text below from article):</p>
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<p>“I find that I am completely positive,” he wrote. “The only times I cry are when I think about the kids – and it’s not so much the ‘Gee, I’ll miss seeing their first bicycle ride’ type of stuff as it is a sense of unfulfilled duty – that I will not be there to help raise them, and that I have left a very heavy burden for my wife.”</p>
<p>He is concentrating now on creating videos for his children. With his oldest son, 5-year-old Dylan, Dr. Pausch went on a recent trip to Disney World and to swim with dolphins, thinking Dylan may be the only child who will have strong direct memories of him.</p>
<p>His wife and children, he said, "mean everything to me. They give a purpose to life and a depth of joy that no job [and I’ve had some of the most awesome jobs in the world] can begin to provide.</p>
<p>“I hope my wife is able to remarry down the line. And I hope they will remember me as a man who loved them, and did everything he could for them.”</p>
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<p>Great speech - very moving.</p>
<p>He definitely knows what’s important in this world.</p>
<p>I have a friend who is dying of breast cancer. She is a divorced mom. Over the summer, she dragged herself out of bed, and, in her wheelchair, on chemo, in pain, she took special one-on-one trips with each of her children, so they would have really happy celebratory memories to hold forever. She is an amazing mother. Her kids are 6 and 10. It is heartbreaking.</p>