‘We All Run the Risk of Getting Hit By the Cancer Dart’

Randy Pausch, a prominent computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon, yesterday gave his farewell lecture. He is 46 years old, and he is dying from pancreatic cancer. Read this remarkable article, by Mark Roth, about a remarkable man. I will give you a dollar if you make it to the end without crying. My condolences and best wishes to Pausch’s family and friends, especially his three young kids.

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  1. martinned says:

    L.S.,

    Bill Hicks, also pancreatic cancer, died age 32 in 1994.

    I’m sorry for the profanity, but such things are just F***ed up.

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  2. martinned says:

    L.S.,

    Bill Hicks, also pancreatic cancer, died age 32 in 1994.

    I’m sorry for the profanity, but such things are just F***ed up.

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  3. John Graham-Cumming says:

    You don’t owe me a dollar.

    John.

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  4. John Graham-Cumming says:

    You don’t owe me a dollar.

    John.

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  5. discordian says:

    truly sad.
    I lost a close uncle to lymphoma earlier this year.
    And he was always active and healthy. Cancer is very unfair.
    My cousin is doing this to raise funds:
    http://www.teamintraining.org/

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  6. discordian says:

    truly sad.
    I lost a close uncle to lymphoma earlier this year.
    And he was always active and healthy. Cancer is very unfair.
    My cousin is doing this to raise funds:
    http://www.teamintraining.org/

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  7. Allogene says:

    You owe me a dollar.

    Sad story and a truly amazing man, society will miss his contributions and his family will miss their father but the article was not that emotional.

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  8. Allogene says:

    You owe me a dollar.

    Sad story and a truly amazing man, society will miss his contributions and his family will miss their father but the article was not that emotional.

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