The Light of Death -- Nancy Gibbs

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Death, Nancy Gibbs, meaning of death,

The Light of Death. We try not to look too closely. But the day I lost my father, I found the gifts that grief can bring.

Most of us have a pretty good idea about how we want to die: at home, at peace, quickly, with family, without pain.

Two out of three people die in hospitals or nuring homes, often alone, the process prolonged by a conspiracy of hope, fear, bureaucracy, intertia. Half of them did bot get the support he or she needed at the end.

Once the battle of life is out of our hands, "Fear," and "regret. Take those away, and what's left is peace.

I celebrate Daddy's Deathday for who he was and what he made us, a day when gratitude cane to life.

Nancy Gibbs

A simply inspiring story of an
incredible man.

Randy Pausch set the tone at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

"If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," said Dr. Pausch.


It is probably the last public speech Dr. Pausch will give anywhere. The 46-year-old computer science professor and father of three preschoolers has incurable pancreatic cancer. Doctors have given him months to live.

Yet, standing at the podium in McConomy Auditorium, Randy Pausch did not focus on impending death. Instead, he celebrated the chance he had been given to live the life he always had dreamed of.