Randy Pausch
A computer scientist with terminal pancreatic cancer who gave a lecture in 2007 on achieving childhood dreams. Tens of millions watched it, and he testified to Congress for pancreatic cancer research funding before he died at 47.
Randy Pausch (1960-2008) was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, a pioneer of virtual reality teaching and co-founder of its Entertainment Technology Center. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006 and told in August 2007 that he had months to live. On 18 September 2007 he gave a lecture titled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, which spread across the internet and became the book The Last Lecture, a bestseller in dozens of languages. In March 2008 he testified before a US Senate subcommittee in support of pancreatic cancer research funding through the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. He died on 25 July 2008. His lecture is one of the most widely shared personal statements about facing a cancer with few treatment options.
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