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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/9/2008 3:50:46 PM

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Here's the link to his home page where he has other videos as well as a page updating his health status:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/9/2008 4:53:34 PM

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Makes you think

I actually refuse to think.

When they stopped paying me more than 7 bucks an hour for that shit..I gave up.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/9/2008 5:03:11 PM

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So what we are saying is people only say inspiring stuff when they are dying of some deadly disease. A bit like the artist who can't make a penny during his life but as soon as he is dead his works sells for millions. People die all the time and struggle with all kinds of problems this fact hardly makes me feel inspired.

Is it true people say “fuck I’m dying of cancer”? I’ve never come across anyone that felt any kind of self pity over those terrible circumstances. There are them stages of dealing with it and the final one is acceptance, most people are the same in that respect.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/12/2008 1:35:22 AM

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"No but I have a bucket" LOL.

They do say that when the awareness of incipient mortality hits you in the face, it brings with it the stinging slap of sudden clarity. OK, I made that up.

It's cancer dude. I've been around ppl with cancer quite a bit and yeah they go through Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' stages and there is always the question WHY ME that pops up, for which there is no coherent, meaning filled, heart warming answer.

Gimme back my bucket, it's not time yet.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/12/2008 4:58:46 AM

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Is it true people say “fuck I’m dying of cancer”? I’ve never come across anyone that felt any kind of self pity over those terrible circumstances. There are them stages of dealing with it and the final one is acceptance, most people are the same in that respect.

Years ago I worked with people that chose to die at home and there were some people that had overwhelming self pity and they didn't move out of this stage. Lots of blame, its not fair, why me, god or whomever hates me.... not that any of the deaths were nice to watch but these ones were particularly awful to be a part of.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 5/14/2008 7:14:01 AM

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*laughs softly*.. not that kind of a bucket.... i think it refers to the saying "when someone kicks the bucket".... what kind of trees do you have that you use a bucket to get someone down from it?... do you just wing it up there and knock them in the head until they fall down?.... *giggles*... all kinds of things play out in that line of thinking... please do enlighten me, Sir.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 7/25/2008 9:08:52 AM

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I'm sad to report that Randy Pausch has passed away.

http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml

Randy Pausch, the professor at Carnegie Mellon University who inspired countless students in the classroom and others worldwide through his highly acclaimed last lecture, has died of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47.

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RE: You have to admire this man, I know I do - 7/25/2008 9:50:23 AM

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I've got a "bucket list" so to speak - but it's things that I don't necessarily put off doing until "later".

Over the past 2 years since dad's stroke, he and I have spent a lot of time talking - which is one of the few things left that he's still capable of doing that he enjoyed prior to becoming ill. What we've talked about most is what he wishes he could do prior to dying - even knowing that with the paralysis, brain damage, and heart problems - he's not ever going to Be healthy enough. Some of it is things that he and mom talked about doing before she died - which they put off doing because of her health, or because he was busy working. Some of it is things he's thought about doing since she died.

A lot of my own List - comes from talking to dad, and hearing his regret about not being physically capable of doing any of the things he so much Wants to do. So I'm doing them now - while I'm able - while I'm healthy - while I'm still young enough to Enjoy them. Partially because they're things I want to do - and partially to honor him, and the comment he made to me a while back about not letting things pass me by for the sake of working or worrying.

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