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"Last Lecture" CMU Professor Randy Pausch Dies

Posted by kdawson on from the imagineering-on-the-other-side dept.

Many readers are sending in word that Randy Pausch has died at 47. The charismatic young college professor celebrated life despite a death sentence from pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely known as the "Last Lecture." The video went viral and has been downloaded by over 10 million people.

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  1. Not buying this by vurg · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Death is a time to be sad. You lost someone and there will never be that same person again. Professor Pausch's approach to this is greedy and only aims to satisfy his ego. It's a time to show your weakness. That is the nature of all living things. Again, he has his own thing and I have my own.