Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI (Associated Press Writer)From Associated PressJuly 25, 2008 2:50 PM EDT
PITTSBURGH - Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. Pausch died at his home in Chesapeake, Va. Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the Internet. In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death. "The lecture was for my kids, but if others are finding value in it, that is wonderful," Pausch wrote on his Web site. "But rest assured; I'm hardly unique." Pausch's lecture: http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
After Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006, treatment directives were given immediately. There would be the traditional oncological treatment administered: surgery and chemotherapy. Randy was also told of the grim survival rates for patients with this type of cancer. Only 1 in 5 million live. 50% are dead within 6 months. 84% expected to die within a year. And 96% dead within 5 years. His belief system immediately aligned with medical statistics and thus this became his instant reality. Was he aware that in Medial school theses statistics are passed down verbatim by the pharmaceutically/chemotherapy industry influenced professor lectures and text books and believed on with religious-like conviction as though the 10 commandments were being personally delivered by Moses descending from Mt. Sinai? In addition, when these very same medical doctors begin to practice and see patients presenting with pancreatic cancer, their perspective and belief system & thus their reality has already been molded and solidified. They know the statistics, have formed in their minds’ what reality truly is, and they are also legally and ethically bound to administer the agreed upon mainstream cancer treatment. If perchance they decide to suggest an “alternative treatment”, their license could be taken from them immediately, and worse than that, could face stiff penalties, fines, as well as a jail sentence.
Was hope given at all? Did he ask the right questions? Is disease prognostication a self-fulfilling prophecy? Is there a psycho-somatic effect when given a death sentence? How great is the affect of the mind on the body? John Hopkins University website states that there is only a 10% genetic link to pancreatic cancer. Which means that 90% of the time, the disease’s origin is environmentally linked or lifestyle induced. The website also clearly discusses that the majority of that 10% genetic link is expressed after birth, which also means when it is all said and done that the creation of the disease is almost exclusively determined by lifestyle.
“Prognostication is based on statistical probabilities. While statistics may apply to a large population sample, they tell us nothing about the individual. For example, if the average temperature in New York City for the year is 54 degrees Fahrenheit, that does not inform me what the temperature is just now or today. Similarly if you are a citizen of Bangladesh and the average income of a Bangladeshi happens to be $65 per household per year, [the lowest of all the reporting countries] that does not tell me what your personal income is if you happen to be a Bangladeshi. When I was a medical student, there used to be a joke about statistics which in today's climate of political correctness might be considered sexist, but at the risk of possibly offending some, I will share it with you any way; because it makes an insightful point. "Statistics is like a girl in bikini! What she reveals is obvious, but what she conceals is much more interesting!" As applied to illness there is only one rule -- believe the diagnosis if it is obtained reliably and if several opinions confirm it [then, you will do something about it]. However, do not buy into the prognosis; you may be buying into a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Deepak Chopra
The question that Randy didn’t ask: “How can I be the 4%?”
My reality would’ve become…Cancer of the pancreas is not an instant death sentence. I would’ve asked the doctor, “what do I have to do to become the 4% and not the 96% and if you can’t tell me, then I’ll find a doctor that can!” Did they give him any hope at all? Or did they give him fear? Did they try to find a natural route? Did they find out if the nerve supply going to his pancreas was functioning correctly? Did they examine his cervical curve? What did his thermal scanning pattern look like? Did they check his brainstem/Atlas area to ascertain whether or not he had nerve interference/subluxation? Did they take a history to understand his dietary habits (too much Coca Cola, toxic Mcdonald’s, daily pots of coffee?), alkaline balance of the body, toxic vaccination or neutotoxic/biotoxic exposure, or his fitness/exercise habits? Unfortunately they checked none of the above. In fact, they immediately began to pour toxic/cancer causing agents like chemotherapy into his body. I could almost guarantee you if I took a healthy individual and began pouring toxic chemotherapy drugs into their body, they would get cancer!
Did anybody ask: What was the environmental factor creating the interference?
"There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people." Bernie Siegel, M.D.
“ I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench, was not: Why? What difference was there in the two persons that caused one to have pneumonia, catarrh, typhoid or rheumatism, while his partner, similarly situated, escaped? Why?” D.D. Palmer (founder of the great profession of chiropractic)
The Principle of chiropractic is all about teaching the world how to be the 4%. As principled chiropractors, we stand in the gap, and shout to the world that yes, there is hope. That yes, you can live life without fear. That yes, the power that made the body can heal the body. That yes, God needs no help to heal, just no interference. The principled chiropractor empowers their patients to do their thinking within in a different paradigm, thus enabling them to ask better questions and make more intelligent decisions! We understand that your thought process, more often than not, can be a matter of life and death.
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***This newsletter, by no means, has been written to dishonor those who have died from pancreatic cancer or those families who have lost loved ones to this disease.
