Randy Pausch
“Last lecture”
It all began with one, age-old question: What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you?
That question had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, where Randy Pausch was a computer sciences professor. For Pausch, however, the question wasn’t hypothetical. Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent a Whipple procedure on September 19, 2006 in an unsuccessful attempt to halt his pancreatic cancer. He was told in August 2007 to expect a remaining three to six months of good health. Pausch chronicled his battle with pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely-known as the “Last Lecture”. Pausch’s lecture came to be known as one of the most powerful accounts of hope, grace and optimism. Randy Pausch died on July 25, 2008 at the age of 47 but his spirit lives on as his “Last Lecture” video has been downloaded so far over 10 Million times and thousands have written in to say that his lecture changed their lives. Please watchthis video as well as the one below.
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Randy Pausch, JUST DO IT ANYWAY.
Hello there,
I found your blog through the images I was searching to put in my blog in a post from Randy Pasch. I have a serie of post about people who are an example o life, but they are in Portuguese I think you can not read withou a translator sw.
Anyway, I ‘d like to tell you I like your post regarding Randy, but specially I liked the purpose of this blog. And from now on I’ll follow it.
Congratulations and I hope to see many other inspirational histories from great people that I need to value them. Regards, Claudia