Randy Pausch, the university professor who created a "last lecture" celebrating life in the face of terminal cancer, has died aged 47

The lecture titled as “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” became a best-selling book at now. .
The US academic said that he had delivered the lecture as a guide for his three young children.
He died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia, said Jeffrey Zaslow, the Wall Street Journal writer who co-wrote the book The Last Lecture

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7526743.stm

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