Dear Jai, Logan, Dylan and Chloe, I am so sorry for your loss. Randy's book and lecture are a great inspiration to me on how to live life to the fullest with no regrets. May God comfort you and strengthen you.

Posted by: Leah Ann Kelley Germantown, TN   July 28, 2008

I lost my father to pancreatic cancer in December 2006. My fathers cancer was textbook to Randys Pausch. I remember my Dad and his frame of mind, it was not my father as I remembered him for 38years of my life. He told me he was "scared and not ready to go" those words will be with me forever. Randy was full of hope and left wonderful memeories for Jai and their childred. I have wonderful memories before his illness but in the end I would rather forget the last year of his life. Thank you Randy for your outlook and gifts to others...

Posted by: cheryl Royal Oak, MI   July 28, 2008

Dear Jai, Logan, Dylan and Chloe, Thank you for sharing your husband and dad with all of us. While he was just being a great partner and dad to you he taught the rest of the world lessons that some people never dreamt possible. He changed my life. I truly believe that he will forever live in the hearts of millions. I know that he will be in mine. Through love and hope and determination you will always have your dad with you. And when you get older the legacies he left for you will amaze you. God Bless You and keep you in his everlasting love.

Posted by: Andrea Indiana, PA   July 28, 2008

Thank you so much Randy for your last lecture. Your excellent advice and insights are something I will remember and reference for the rest of my life. I wish the best to your loving wife and children. How blessed they are to have you as their guardian angel.

Posted by: Sarah Richmond Fayetteville, AR   July 28, 2008

Rest in Peace, Randy

Posted by: Chan Ying Kit, Kobe Hong Kong   July 28, 2008

So sorry for your loss. Hope knowing how your family has touched my life and so many others will in time be a comfort.

Posted by: Glenda Romer    July 28, 2008

After reading your book and watching your Last Lecture, I started to deny the existence of no-win situations. You showed us the way to fight already lost battles and finally you won the most important one - the campaign for virtousness, everlasting memory and the fight for our hearts. With due respect. PS: I told my children to start painting wishes and dreams on the walls of their rooms.

Posted by: Arndt Stroscher Fürstenfeldbruck - Germany   July 28, 2008

An incredible man who lived a simple life and he asked for nothing in return. Randy found beauty in everything; that in itself is a legacy. Our heart and prayers go out to Randy's wife and children. What a beautiful legacy he left his family and all people. Listening to "The Last Lecture" and reading the book has profoundly changed our lives forever. Randy Pausch was a gift to all mankind.

Posted by: Tracy and Emily Sigfrid Minneapoilis, MN   July 28, 2008

Dear Mrs. Pausch, I only "knew" your husband through the two lectures he gave late last year and his book, so while I have no memories to share, I am grateful to him for his excellent advice and you for unselfishly encouraging him to write the book with Mr. Zaslow. He may only have cared about the first three copies, but thanks to that book his intelligent zest for life has and will continue to inspire many to lead a more ambitiously hopeful existence. May God bless you and your children, now and in the years to come.

Posted by: Dennis South Bend, IN   July 28, 2008

A miracle would have been appropriate to give this man more time with his lovely wife and children. It was not to be. I only learned about Randy Pausch and his life story one day after his passing away when my husband watched his "Last Lecture" online. I have since then thought about why the life of such an extraordinary human being has to end like this. It makes it hard to believe in any creator who is supposedly watching out for us. The only "sense" I could see in this tragedy is that without his illness he would not have given that lecture, a, he would not have written the book, he would not have spoken in front of Congress. He would not have helped to raise awarness for this horrible type of cancer for which research is so terribly underfunded. People like I would have never read up on pancreatic cancer and would not have donated money for research. If his life story will really lead to a cure or at least improved therapy against pancreatic cancer, maybe it will help make the loss a little bit more tolerable for his immediate family.

Posted by: Sandra Singapore   July 28, 2008