[bozlady]

A truly inspiring story. This is the way I want to die if the Lord allows me to. . . . 'you just have to decide if you're a Tigger or an Eeyore"

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 13 minutes ago

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote Pausch's book. Pausch and his family had moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's relatives.

Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the Internet.

In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_ ... 5X7f9Y24cA

[Baldspot]

Great quote for his lecture which I paraphrase.

If you want to know how to get ahead, meet in my office at 10 PM on Friday and I'll tell you.

[Kolzilla41]

just got done watching his lecture. It was very inspiring. There are plenty of Christians that go through rough times and all they do is whine and complain. Imagine never really knowing that you have hope for heaven and taking in the face of death like that?

[Cider Jim]

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

That's your age, Fumble.

[bozlady]

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.

That's your age, Fumble.

watch it there sonny boy!