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Email|Link|Comments (1) Posted by Matthew Gilbert April 4, 2008 01:18 PM

This Wednesday, "Primetime" is doing a profile of Randy Pausch, the computer-science professor with terminal cancer who delivered the excruciatingly moving “Last Lecture” that went viral. (If you haven't seen the lecture, go to YouTube and search for Pausch.) “Someone is going to push my family off the cliff pretty soon,” the father of three says in the advance "Primetime" clips, “and I won’t be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets.” OK, I'm totally prepared to blubber. It all sounds life-affirming and moving enough to get me to brave the eminently fake stylings of Diane Sawyer.

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I have viewed the youtube video a few times. My own Dad died at 50, three months after being diagnosed with melanoma, and I wished I had these types of insights encapsulated in such a direct, purposeful form. When he died, I not only lost my best friend but felt as if I lost my compass. Of course, the lessons were there throughtout life but what a gift to contemplate and think to deliver them in such a form to one's children. I envy him and can sympathesize with is plight. Godspeed.

Posted by Anon April 4, 08 07:13 PM