Carnegie Mellon Professor, Author of 'The Last Lecture,' Succumbs to Cancer By GEOFF MARTZ, SAMANTHA WENDER and CHRIS FRANCESCANI Randy Pausch, the charismatic young college professor who chronicled his battle with pancreatic cancer in a remarkable speech widely-known as the "Last Lecture," has died. He was 47. Carnegie Mellon professor, 47, succumbs to pancreatic cancer. A dear friend to Diane Sawyer and "Good Morning America," Pausch's lecture and subsequent interview was one of the most powerful accounts of hope, grace and optimistism ABC News has ever featured, and drew a worldwide response. It all began with one, age-old question: What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you? That question had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series...
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