Uplifting "Last Lecture" on a man's own upcoming death

published by arvana

7 months 1 week ago • 2233 views

tags: oprah, life, death, cancer, inspiring, carnegie mellon, randy pausch

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Here's the original "Last Lecture":

http://www.videosift.com/video/Rapidly-Dying-Professors-Last-Lecture

written by arvana

| 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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OPRA IS SO EXPLOITATIVE its like oh yeah that makes good tv lets make money of it. i think the lecture is far better in its original setting.

written by westy

| 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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*long

written by jonny

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This video has been flagged as being at least 10 minutes in length - declared long by jonny.

written by siftbot

| 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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Moving this video to arvana's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

written by siftbot

| 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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I guess I have to *beg for some more exposure for this...

written by arvana

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Sending this video to Beggar's Corner to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter arvana.

written by siftbot

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If you upvote this, make sure to upvote the origional lecture as well

written by dgandhi

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*happy

written by gorgonheap

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Adding video to channels (Happy) - requested by gorgonheap.

written by siftbot

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Happy? Really? As upbeat as this guy tries to be, I find this horrifyingly depressing.

written by Sarzy

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Will Oprah be pissed if this guy beats the cancer? It'd be like the James Frey "A Million Little Pieces" incident all over again

written by rottenseed

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I'm not going to comment on the Oprah aspect of this but:

I have to admit, even though his speech was compelling, it seemed ambiguous in message and almost incoherent. -That is, until the very end, when it all makes sense. I too, found it slightly depressing, but once you realize this speech (and book) will embody the the many times a parent tries to instill values unto their child, it's actually quite genius.

written by Baera | 7 months 1 week ago | CH

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*promote

Sadly Randy died today at age 47. You can watch the full lecture at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

written by twiddles

| 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, March 7th, 2008 9:40am PST - promote requested by twiddles.

written by siftbot

| 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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*discuss

This video isn't showing up - can someone fix the embed code?
*dead

But also, this precedes a likely dupe:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Last-Lecture-of-Randy-Pausch
Which should be discarded. But I don't suggest as yet, as the code for this is dead.

I suggest and request:

Fix this code;
Discard the other.

Before I did though, because of the exceptional circumstance of the coincidence of coinciding events, I wanted to be sure it was okay (deads, dupes and discards are an explosive mix) and have the proper oversight.

That is all. And thanks.

written by doogle

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by doogle.

This video is being sent to Sift Talk for discussion - discuss requested by doogle.

written by siftbot

| 1 month 2 weeks ago | CH

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Fixed. *return since the video that is a closer dupe is http://www.videosift.com/video/Rapidly-Dying-Professors-Last-Lecture, and actually I think that supersaiyan's is worth keeping as it is a longer version. Thanks for pointing this out, Doogle!

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Returning this video from Sift Talk - return requested by arvana.

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