Pausch's last lecture, urging students to fearlessly pursue their dreams, went viral on YouTube in 2007, getting more than 11 million views. Chris Feudtner, research director of Palliative Care Services at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.Ī cultural shift has occurred, he said, referring to columnists and Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who discussed their impending deaths with frankness.
"What we're seeing over the last decade, we are gradually moving from a culture that had become during the 20th century, very closed about death," said Dr. In the Internet age, many people reflect on their lives through video, personal blogs and larger websites such as, where people who have major health events connect and share online. The public sharing of one's last thoughts is a way to acknowledge that the end is near, but it also destigmatizes death for others, said medical experts who work with terminally ill patients. Even when it appeared unlikely that she would receive a second double lung transplant, the 25-year-old continued to chronicle life on her blog. For nearly four years, she narrated an unvarnished blog about life with a terminal disease. Markvoort had cystic fibrosis, an incurable disease that causes mucus to accumulate in the lungs. It's kinda tough to hear, but I can say it with a smile." Propped in a hospital bed, Markvoort sat surrounded by her family. "Hello to the world at large," she said in the video.
She looked frail and thin, and her hair was rumpled. (CNN) - The former beauty queen stared into the camera, but this was no pageant or performance.
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