The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) say that approximately 37,170 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and 33,370 will die from it. If you had only six months to live, like he did, what would you do? How would you live your life? So I'm putting forward the question to you, ' What would you say or do if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you?'. Thanks alot for creating the awareness about the killer disease before you eventually lost the battle against it. I can't imagine how it was for him knowing that your days on earth are numbered and still moving on to make an impact in the last days instead of worrying to death about his circumstance. His Last lecture was one of hope, grace and optimism. He however gave the world a beautiful example of dying eloquently. Randy, though I didn't get to know him or read about him while he was alive, did greatly on Alice which has been hugely used in teaching. A book is also being published by Hyperion on his last lecture. He gave a last lecture on the disease, and the video of his talk has been viewed over 6 million times and downloaded over 10 million times. Randy Pausch, a charismatic young college professor, as ABC News puts it, finally lost the battle against pancreatic cancer on the 25th of July, 2008. I stumbled across a writeup on James Gosling's blog and I felt I had to also support the fight against Pancreatic Cancer by creating an awareness for it in my own little way. Fatima Mohammed (Chapel Hill and Denham).Adedayo Osholowu (Special Olympics Nigeria) Shile Ibironke Consolidated Media Associates).
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