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\"randypausch_236x236.jpg\"<\/a>Randy Pausch <\/a>was a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University whose “last lecture<\/a>” brought him to international prominence for his courage, his compassion and his humanity while facing a terminal illness.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen his now famous lecture it is well worth the hour you’ll invest.\u00a0 There are lessons there for all of us regardless of our age, health, gender, race, or economic status.\u00a0 His talk reaches across all boundaries and is an eloquent example where a man with little time left to live nevertheless reminds each one of us that we owe it to ourselves, our loved ones and the world not to take a single day for granted because you never know how many days you might have left.<\/p>\n

Even though I\u00a0 never met Randy, his death hits me particularly hard as I am still personally dealing with unexpectedly losing my closest friend, Marc Orchant, just a few months ago.\u00a0 It seems to me that Randy and Marc had a lot in common – no doubt they would have been friends and who knows, perhaps they have become friends in another world.\u00a0 It seems a sad truth that the best of us are always taken away far too soon.\u00a0 My heart goes out to those that Randy left behind I am sure the void must be vast although I am sure that Randy’s wife and children must feel enormous pride at the way Randy chose to handle this incredibly painful hand of cards (as he put it) that he was dealt.\u00a0 Randy, like Marc, will be missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie-Mellon University whose “last lecture” brought him to international prominence for his courage, his compassion and his humanity while facing a terminal illness.\u00a0 If you haven’t seen his now famous lecture it is well worth the hour you’ll invest.\u00a0 There are lessons there for all of us … <\/p>\n

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