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CMU professor gives his last lesson on life (Dare you not to shed a tear)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | September 19, 2007 | Mark Roth

Posted on 09/20/2007 4:07:51 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember

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May I have 1/10 of this man's dignity.
1 posted on 09/20/2007 4:07:55 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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Read the whole article, please.

http://post-gazette.com/pg/07262/818671-298.stm


2 posted on 09/20/2007 4:08:42 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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3 posted on 09/20/2007 4:09:17 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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No question where he is going. My prayers are with him and his family.


4 posted on 09/20/2007 4:11:02 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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Darn fuzzy monitor.


5 posted on 09/20/2007 4:16:09 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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May I have 1/10 of this man's dignity. <> Amen.
6 posted on 09/20/2007 4:18:35 PM PDT by SevenMinusOne
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No question where he is going. My prayers are with him and his family.

The article gives no indication of his eternal destination, or his relationship with the Eternal One.

The secular religion believes, I've observed, in one of two possibilities: (1) there is nothing after this existence and consequently one is going nowhere, or (2) one earns/merits "heaven" through his or her good works.

7 posted on 09/20/2007 4:36:05 PM PDT by nonsporting
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A couple of years ago they found a growth on my spleen and they suspected pancreatic cancer, I looked up the odds, long money on croaking within two years.

False alarm and my children are well taken care of, but the Grand Kids need the corrupting influence of me.

8 posted on 09/20/2007 4:38:34 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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May I have 1/10 of this man's dignity.

Me too, and his courage!

9 posted on 09/20/2007 4:39:05 PM PDT by RAY (God Bless the USA!)
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Oh he!!...I disagree with him. It is unfair as people like Bin Ladin still be sucking air after this good man is gone.


10 posted on 09/20/2007 4:42:19 PM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas , Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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I'd like to email him but I just don't know what to say.

Randy Pausch's Home Page

11 posted on 09/20/2007 4:49:52 PM PDT by expatguy (Support Conservative Blogging - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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God Bless him. I’m sure our #2 son must know him personally, or at least know of him, because he is a 2004 Comp. Sci. graduate of CMU. I’ll have to ask him about this. In fact, I’ll send him the link to this thread.


12 posted on 09/20/2007 4:53:32 PM PDT by SuziQ
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False alarm and my children are well taken care of, but the Grand Kids need the corrupting influence of me.

Good news, LB! May you have many long years to corrupt those Grands!

13 posted on 09/20/2007 4:54:50 PM PDT by SuziQ
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Nasty disease. My father-in-law passed due to it.


14 posted on 09/20/2007 4:55:50 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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What’s to cry about?

I see a man who made a decision to work within the bounds of truth, to face his fate as it can be known and to say all the things, that coming from another’s mouth would come off maudlin or plain sappy.


15 posted on 09/20/2007 5:03:24 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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bump


16 posted on 09/20/2007 5:04:49 PM PDT by VOA
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Although I haven't met him, Randy's a friend of a friend. I've been following his case since my younger brother was diagnosed with cancer almost a year ago. They were both treated at MD Anderson last winter. You can see the full chronology of Randy Pausch's cancer here.

(My brother is having much better luck, with no detectable cancer.)

17 posted on 09/20/2007 5:06:46 PM PDT by AZLiberty (President Fred -- I like the sound of it.)
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I hope so, my son is with us but my daughter is a libertarian, how that happened I haven't a clue.

My second Grand Daughter is going to be a heart breaker, her Alabama Ridge Runner blood and my genetics, hopefully my politics, I hope she doesn't go prevert on me like her cousin Max Sandlin.

18 posted on 09/20/2007 5:16:34 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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My mother was diagnosed a year ago this month with pancreatic cancer and died last December. What a nasty cancer this is as there is no cure. I don’t know the money facts, but I sure wish as much money as is put into AIDS research and treatment, would go into pancreatic cancer research. This is an equal opportunity cancer.


19 posted on 09/20/2007 5:18:10 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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Will you fill us in after you speak to son #2? Thanks.


20 posted on 09/20/2007 5:19:03 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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