Durch Zufall wurde meine Aufmerksamkeit gestern Abend wieder auf den leider verstorbenen Randy Pausch gelenkt. Im folgenden Video spricht Pausch auf der Abschlussfeier des Jahrgangs 2008 der Carnegie Mellon University…

I am glad to be here today. Hell, I am glad to be anywhere today. [...] Last August, I was told that most likely I had three to six month left to live. I am on month nine now. [...]

Somebody said to me in the light of these numbers: “Wow, so you are really beating the grim reaper”. And what I said without even thinking about it, is: “We don’t beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up?

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