The End of Life video reminded my of another video that I watched, called Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams. Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in my home town in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. This video is a recording of Randy Pausch’s last lecture, after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer; he was told that he would not survive. He was 47, married, a father, and consider to be one of the World's Top-100 Most Influential People. His video showed courage, humor, and an understanding of what he was facing. As I watched his video I thought about, if I was dying I would want to think that my life allowed me to achieve my dreams.
The following link is to Randy’s last lecture, I hope you find it as powerful as I did.
I read the book The Last Lecture, and then went directly to youtube and viewed it online. It was very moving. I remember thinking, I can only hope that I would have such a great attitude if I were in his shoes. I think he took that opportunity to really make a statement about life and how we should live it.
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