Image by moominsean via FlickrRandy Pausch, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University died from pancreatic cancer. He gave an inspiring talk titled Achieving your Childhood Dreams. The talk found its way as a video on Youtube. The video has been watched by millions of people. In the video he is has shown extreme courage in facing his upcoming death.A talk like this forces us to rethink our priorities. We can go to the moon. We can create all kinds of the technological marvels but we still have not gained much control over life and death. None of us really know why we were born or how or when or why we will die. We can create all kind of explanation to answer these questions but the truth of the matter is that answer to these questions is unknowable.
There was an old Indian Movie titled "Anand" in which the lead character played by Rajesh Khanna, was dying of cancer. He also showed a playful side facing his death while everybody around him was sad and upset. However, he was just a fictional movie character. In Randy Paush we have a real human being who faced his death with courage and he will inspire us all to do the same
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