The Last Lecture
- From: The Scarlet Parsnip <The_Scarlet_Parsnip@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:52:08 GMT
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer
scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an
Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., said Jeffrey Zaslow, a
Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote Pausch's book. Pausch and his
family had moved there last fall to be closer to his wife's relatives.
Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September
2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007
garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the
Internet.
In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of
instead of concentrating on impending death.
"The lecture was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it,
that is wonderful," Pausch wrote on his Web site. "But rest assured;
I'm hardly unique."
The book "The Last Lecture" leaped to the top of the nonfiction
best-seller lists after its publication in April and remains there
this week. The book deal was reported to be worth more than $6
million.
Pausch said he dictated the book to Zaslow by cell phone, and Zaslow
recalled Friday that he was "strong and funny" during their
collaboration.
"It was the most fun 53 days of my life because it was like a
performance," Zaslow told The Associated Press. "It was like getting
53 extra lectures." He recalled that Pausch became emotional when they
worked on the last chapter, though, because that to him was the "end
of the lecture, the book, his life."
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