Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

This has been an internet sensation and the corresponding book has been a bestseller. If you have not seen it yet, I assure you it is well worth the 1 hour and 16 minutes you will devote to watching it. :*)
Last Lecture

Randy Pausch died on July 25, 2008 at the age of 47. I particularly liked his lecture. I spent many years in academia and he reminds me of the best teachers/professors I had. He wanted to take a big, delicious bite out of life and teach the art of living to his students and his children.

The New York Times wrote,

Last September, Dr. Pausch unexpectedly stepped on an international stage when he addressed a crowd of about 400 faculty and students at Carnegie Mellon as part of the school’s “Last Lecture” series. In the talks, professors typically talk about issues that matter most to them. Dr. Pausch opened his talk with the news that he had terminal cancer and proceeded to deliver an uplifting, funny talk about his own childhood dreams and how to help his children and others achieve their own goals in life. He learned he had pancreatic cancer in September, 2006.

Sitting in the audience was Carnegie Mellon alumnus Jeff Zaslow, a columnist with The Wall Street Journal, who wrote about the speech. Media outlets and bloggers linked to the story, and more than 10 million people have since watched an Internet video of the talk. The lecture was translated into seven languages, and Hyperion published a book version that became a New York Times bestseller.