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HOW WILL YOU FACE YOUR DEATH?  HOPEFULLY LIKE A HERO.

I faced death when I was a teenager…....but it has to be harder when you’re 47 years old, with a family…...

Randy Pausch is a pioneering virtual reality guy, teaching the last 10 years at Carnegie-Mellon University, with a lovely wife and three little kids….....and pancreatic cancer.

He says that teachers often talk about what they would say if they knew they were giving their “last lecture” - which is interesting because I’ve never had a discussion like that.  Maybe that says something about the circles I’ve spent my working life in.

At any rate, in September of 2007 Randy Pausch got to deliver his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon, and here is his description of the talk:

Almost all of us have childhood dreams: for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living.  Sadly, most people don’t achieve theirs, and I think that’s a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I’ve actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center (etc.cmu.edu), of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams. This talk will discuss how I achieved my childhood dreams (being in zero gravity, designing theme park rides for Disney, and a few others), and will contain realistic advice on how *you* can live your life so that you can make your childhood dreams come true, too.

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About a month later, he did the “Reader’s Digest” version (11 minutes) for Oprah and much of the nation:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/Randy_Oprah.html

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If you would like to see the whole talk, with introductions, honors, etc., then you’ll need to go here:

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/Randy_Last_Lecture.html

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