winners of the last lecture

"The Last Lecture" Winners - WMDT
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A Carnegie Mellon Professor diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last summer was told he had only months to live. 46-year old Randy Pausch then delivered his "last lecture" a heartfelt public talk about the meaning of life. The tape of that hit the internet. Six million people have seen it.

Paush sat down with ABC's Diane Sawyer and told her,"the metaphor I've used is somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon. And I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets."

Paush has now taken on a new audience with his new book " The Last Lecture." He said wanted to write the book for his three young children. On each page of the book it details what he's learned about life, family, and his childhood dreams, even the disease that threatens it all.

15 WMDT viewers will be receiving a free copy of his book.

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