I came across the story of Randy Pausch in Time Magazine last week, where he was the subject of 10 Questions. Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon professor with terminal cancer, who delivered a sententious speech entitled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams."
He is brilliant, emotional, and capricious, preferring to talk rather than sulk, laugh rather than cry. I don't know why, in so many cases, in so many lives, it takes death to make so many realize what is important. I suppose, when on one's deathbed, regardless of age or circumstance, one will not wish they worked harder, or had more money.
Here is the "Last Lecture" courtesy of Youtube.
