Son of 'Last Lecturer' Takes on Father's Fight

and finally tonight a living legacy professor Randy Pausch stirred people to change their lives millions of people in his famous last lecture which was sent person-to-person around the globe well today his son decided to take up his dad's mission fighting pancreatic cancer it is the fourth leading cause of cancer death and the disease that took his dad whoa and we keep studying we might be able to change that 8 year-old Dylann pouch his father's son learning to take a cause to Congress and how you carry on for a dad whose brain and bravery we're magic if you had one last lecture to give before you died what would it be Randy Pausch the Carnegie Mellon professor whose last lecture was seen by 10 million people he challenged his students and everyone else to be strong for their dreams the brick walls are there for a reason they're there to stop the other people the father of three had just found out he had pancreatic cancer months to live his message why not weally live we cannot change the cards we are dealt just how we play the hand and laugh and let go of fear anybody who is out there who is a parent if your kids want to paint their bedroom as a favor to me let them do it ok it'll be ok don't worry about resale value on the house Dylan was the oldest Logan the middle Chloe the youngest where do you come up all these great stories and you have your head are you using your imagination today really isn't real in his final months their dad would walk the halls of Congress hi I'm Randy Pausch the urging more and more creative funding for pancreatic cancer research I'm here to put a human face on the disease and today for the first time Dylan with his mother Jay added his steps to his father's his voice to his father's voice um please kiss box i'm penka at cancer filled in his book of the last lecture randy writes my dreams for my kids are very exact I want them to find their own path to fulfillment the really strong emotions for me are they won't have me for them and that's where it's okay for me to say that's not fair it's been 2 years now since Randy Pausch died I think it's wonderful for him to see that individually we have a power as an American to make a difference and I think that this helps them say wow I can do something maybe I can't bring my dad back to life but I can help other people

Channel: ABC News

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Keywords: randy, paush, 8-year-old, son, campaign, pancreas, pancreatic cancer, US, ABC, ABC News, abc, abc news, news

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Length: 2min 59sec (179 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 23 2010