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Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture
Here is a hypothetical question: 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? An old age question that had been posed to the annual speaker of a lecture series at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Randy Pausch, who was a computer sciences professor at CMU. Randy had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer[...]
Five People You Meet in Heaven
"There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another, than you can separate a breeze from the wind."The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one. In his best selling book, "The Five People you Meet in Heaven", Mitch Albom attempts to show how every life affects another in a thought provoking story of a man, who in death, learns the[...]
Dog Waits For His Master's Return For Ten Years
Hidesaburo Ueno, born in Japan in 1871, was a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo. His dog, Hachiko, would sit by the front door and see him off for work every day and greeted him at 4 o'clock at the nearby train station when he returned from work.One evening,[...]
The Spiritual Biography of Amazing Grace
Music, for the myriad existence of human culture has been a commonly shared trait. With an ability to elicit emotions of anger, love, passion and hope, it can inspire, motivate and incite within us a sentimental desire to keep going. It has the ability to summon memories with effortless ease, allowing a reminiscence of nostalgia to overshadow our present thoughts; and perhaps this is[...]
Life Beyond The Groove
For any audiophile, music is the soundtrack of life - for And Vinyly, a UK-based company, the question was posed, "When the album that is life finally reaches the end, wouldn't it be nice to keep that record spinning for eternity?"With the newest focus in memorial keepsakes steering toward personalization, companies across the world are now toiling with alternatives in body disposal[...]
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