"'We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

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?

On July 25th 2008, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, author of the remarkable and inspiring book "Last Lecture," succumbed to pancreatic cancer the age of 47. Before doing so, however, he wrote a book and posted a video on the Internet entitled, "The Last Lecture". If you haven't listened to the video, I highly recommend it. It helps put the challenges and opportunities of life in perspective and attempts to motivate those who read or listen to the lecture to stretch to achieve their goals and dreams and to never give up.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture