Update on randy pausch

The world lost a truly remarkable man. Don Cashin. Post a Comment. Missing a remarkable man I should have sensed that I was feeling the pain of a nation as we lost Randy Pausch to pancreatic cancer. Randy Pausch that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer and only had months to live. Almost a year later, with his story reaching out and touching people around the world, and launching interest in this amazing man and his story, Randy Pausch died Friday at age As Randy, explained there's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.

Professors give it before they retire. Randy knew, after his diagnosis, that he wanted to give his own final lecture on "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". He would talk about his life's journey and the lessons he's learned along the way, talk to his students, but always with the intent of leaving the video-taped lecture, as his own final legacy, for his three small children.

That September 18, lecture before people at Carnegie Mellon University was complete with slides of his CT scans and a description of the cancer that was devouring his pancreas and that would most likely claim in his life in a matter of months. Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture" was video-taped and ended up on the Internet where it has since been downloaded more than 6 million times.

This amazing man and his overwhelmingly inspirational speech has reached, touched and exploded 10 million hearts. It's not just a speech about achieving childhood dreams, or living your life, or what you would do if you were told that you only had six months left to live.

This talk wrote itself. Previously, Randy has been involved in a number of experimental drug trials and each time, the side effects and the drugs, themselves, have created such extreme problems that they have had to all be discontinued.

Doctors continued to try to improve his general health so as to try continuing attacks against the tumors, which had spread. Randy reported on June 10th, that he had received a letter from President and Mrs. Bush at the White House, where they expressed their support and prayers for his continuing strength and comfort. Randy and his wife, Jai attended the graduation ceremonies for the May, graduating class at Carnegie Mellon.

Randy presented a copy of his book "The Last Lecture" to Al Gore during the commencement ceremonies and was honored with his 'giving of the charge ' at the end of the ceremonies to the young students there that day.

He told the audience at Carnegie Mellon that his doctors had given him about five more months to live, but that he wasn't going to talk about his cancer or his family. Instead, he would concentrate on the valuable lessons he had learned during his life and the joy he had experienced. When asked about his hopes for the book, a book which continues to be on the bestseller list today, Randy said "I only care about the first three copies.

Gilbert reached out to me after I tagged my dad in a Facebook post on the 3-year anniversary of his death. She featured it in her book as an example of a way to use technology to embrace the memory of a lost loved one. In an effort to make a tough day a bit more pleasant, I had asked my Facebook friends, as well as my dad's friends, to share their favorite memory to help me remember him.

Within minutes, comments came pouring in with precious moments he shared with everyone from his childhood neighbor to my high school principal. I'm always grateful to my dad for leaving behind his words of inspiration, but more so than ever on this Father's Day.

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Today Logo. Share this —. They had three children: sons Dylan, 6, and Logan, 4, and daughter Chloe, 2. By all accounts, his family is doing well. Jai Pausch wrote a book about caring for her husband after the diagnosis, titled Dream New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss , which she started a year after his death and published in She described the difficulty in coping with his illness, the dark moments, anger at her husband and the guilt.

But ultimately, she said, she embraced her husband's belief that there is magic that lives in us all. But one can hope it will be as vibrant and exciting.

I've had to give myself permission to let go of the old dreams. One of those dreams was new love. She met a retired naval officer online, and she said in an interview last May that they had recently married. Dylan Pausch has followed his father in speaking out for increased pancreatic cancer funding.

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