Celebrating life instead of fearing death

[oregonpackfan]

Please activate the video of college professor Randy Pausch. In his 40's, he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and has just months to live.

In his "Last Lecture" he talks about the primary values in celebrating the gift of life rather than fear impending death.

The man demonstrates an incredible amount of courage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8577255250907450469

[Bretsky]

Re: Celebrating life instead of fearing death

Please activate the video of college professor Randy Pausch. In his 40's, he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and has just months to live.

In his "Last Lecture" he talks about the primary values in celebrating the gift of life rather than fear impending death.

The man demonstrates an incredible amount of courage.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...55250907450469

Good stuff; Jimmy Valvano gave a great speech a while back as well. If I was ambitious I would go find and and post it also

[packinpatland]

I read about him in this past Sunday's paper..........what an amazing man.
Thanks for posting this OPF.

[MJZiggy]

Wow. The full lecture was spectacular. Its not often that I feel compelled to take notes while messing on the internet...

[SkinBasket]

We have a close family member nearing death. The only thing I fear is explaining to my son why a person who he likes will no longer be here as it'll be his first. I'm fucked.

[GrnBay007]

We have a close family member nearing death. The only thing I fear is explaining to my son why a person who he likes will no longer be here as it'll be his first. I'm fucked.

He's pretty young, isn't he skin? One very good resource I took advantage of when my Dad was in his last weeks was the counselor available from Hospice. The kids wanted me in on the discussion and this woman did a wonderful job! I'm very glad we did that. If nothing else, give them a call and ask how to handle it with your son at his age. That organization is amazing.

[Jimx29]

Do yourself a favor and go here and watch the whole 1 hour, 16 minute lecture w/o having to watch that attention whore oprah act like she's the reason the video is so powerful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

[MJZiggy]

There's a link to the full lecture with the introductions and the full program after in the link OPF posted as well. 1:44

[oregonpackfan]

We have a close family member nearing death. The only thing I fear is explaining to my son why a person who he likes will no longer be here as it'll be his first. I'm fucked.

Skin Basket,

There are some centers that help parents with explaining death to kids and dealing with grieving.

Portland has a place called The Dougy Center which helps kids deal with grieving, etc. Perhaps they have a website.

You could also Google something like "Kids and grieving" or "Kids dealing with death."

[Jimx29]

Tomorrow night (4-9) @ 9:00 pm Central, Diane Sawyer has a special 1 hour interview with him 9 months after the lecture on ABC TV

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/

[Deputy Nutz]

I hate death.

[GrnBay007]

I hate death.

Tell me about it. In the last 2 years I lost 3 family members and 2 co-workers (management) who I worked closely with for many years. It really starts to play games with your head. Time to start taking more vacation and not sweating the small stuff.

[Deputy Nutz]

I wasn't talking about other people's death, I mean mine, it is gonna suck.

[GrnBay007]

I wasn't talking about other people's death, I mean mine, it is gonna suck.

LOL believe me, the people you leave behind will suffer more than you.

[Scott Campbell]

I wasn't talking about other people's death, I mean mine, it is gonna suck.

.....but the flowers will be lovely. I'll tell you all about it in the hereafter.