R.I.P. Randy Pausch

:õ(

We've had quite a few RIP threads in here in the last couple of years, but I have to say I am hurt the most deeply over this one.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/last-lecture-professor-randy-pausch-die...

He was quite a person. I feel so bad for his family

Thanks for posting this. I didn't even know he existed until a few minutes ago, but the news report is of someone who demonstrates all the best of what it means to be human. It's tragic that such a person should die when he should have had at least another 20-25 years of showing the rest of us how to live.

I appreciate everyone who takes the time to notice there are wonderful things to be experienced in life. My sympathy and empathy to his famil.

#3 - I saw a report about him on the news a few months ago, and, as a result bought his book The Last Lecture for my husband and myself. Plus I watched most of his last lecture on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

In fact he's the reason I asked: "Are you Tigger or Eeyore?" a while back. :o)

The news of his death saddened me, too.

I can't think of a thing to say. Everything I write sounds too glib, too facile.

A good man died today.

Aww, they had a nice tribute on the ABC national news. :o/

very sad, but very brave

I admire someone who can face death that well, and I hate pancreatic cancer. It has claimed all too many people, and it seems like such an overpowering type of cancer.

He was a good man and will be missed.

A good quote from him:

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully."

His passing is sad, but his is one of the rare cases where his funeral can really be a celebration of the life he lived.

#10 - Agreed. Still, I shed a few tears...

I shed a few tears too Clamairy. I wasn't aware of this sad news. Thank you for letting us all know. He was a remarkable man.

Thanks for posting the link to his last obit and last lecture. I hadn't heard of Professor Pausch, but I followed your link and spent two hours watching his last lecture and reading about him. Time well-spent. As my people would say, he was a real mensch. Sigh. . .only the good die young.

Well, the only plus is that most of us never would have heard of him or learned of his life's philosophy if he had not been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Even in the worst of times he made the most of the cards he was dealt... a great lesson for all of us.

This saddens me as well--he was an amazing man. I kept hoping as I read his post on his condition that he would beat it or keep going alot longer than his doctors predicted. Even though I knew he was terminal, I was still shocked about his death as his fairly recent appearances he looked pretty good and sounded just so positive.

My sympathy to his family on the loss of Randy.