Remembering Randy Pausch

I'm glad to be here today hell I'm glad to be anywhere today this was Randy Pausch at CMU's graduation last match it was nine months after he was told he had three to six months to live and he was sharing a secret he had learned we don't beat the reaper by living longer we beat the reaper by living well and living fully and well is what he did as millions around the world watched his final lecture on the internet or reddit in a best-selling book it was a lecture about how to achieve your childhood dreams he punctuated his talk with one-armed push-ups pretty good for a guy who was dying a death he spoke eloquently about when he asked a Congressional subcommittee for more funding to fight pancreatic cancer I have 100 percent chance of dying and there isn't anybody in the medical community who won't bet that I won't be dead by the end of the year he didn't make it till the end of the year but he lived every day to the fullest sweeping his wife off her feet at CMU's graduation and never feeling sorry for himself I'm sorry I won't be around to raise my kids it makes me very sad but I can't change that fact and so I've tried to do everything I could with the time I had and the time I have to help other people Pasch leaves behind three children and his wife Jay he also leaves behind a message of inspiration for millions of people around the world and it's guess it's nice to make the most of it it took Randy Pausch only 76 minutes on a day last September here on the Carnegie Mellon University campus to forge a legacy that were sound far beyond the 47 years he spent on this earth I've been a sad day maybe the saddest day my career Peter Lee who had CMU's computer science department says Randy's real genius was reminding us that the simplest things are the best he was we devoted to his family he was directly involved still in managing his research projects here it's so hard to describe how we feel wanda van now steps in as manager of the alice project pouches creation of a teaching bridge between computer science and the arts she and the Alice team met with Randi only a week ago it was a very poignant and precious time went through incredible amounts of pain that he you never see it on his face dance Warrick keeps a picture of pouch on his desk thinking he'll walk through the door you need me telling you you're a jerk and you come away feeling good Randy Pausch saw the humor in life even as his own slipped away and he said his now-famous last lecture was really a road map written for his three young children dylan logan and chloe one of his deepest regrets is simply not being there for them House said I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that one day will wash up on the beach for my children this morning around 4 o'clock Randy Pausch began a new adventure the presence that he had in real life will continue with us for many years to come

Channel: CBS Pittsburgh

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Length: 3min 25sec (205 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 04 2020