Death Be Not

"I'm dying soon, and I'm choosing to have fun," says father of two young boys and a baby girl Randy Pausch. "Today, tomorrow and every day I have left."

While outliving his doctor's prognosis, Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon University professor famed for his work inspiring and facilitating children, especially girls, to get involved with programming. His "last lecture," a result of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and "death sentence" was offered to the CMU community but aimed at his children is said to have been downloaded more than 1 million times.

Also facing death bravely, although from the other side of the spectrum after having lost her father, is 9-year-old Milly Bell, whose father died two years ago at age 37. Ms. Bell is the author of the new United Kingdom release, "My Daddy Is Dying," a collection of the drawings and games she created as her father underwent his final treatments for his brain tumor.

** You can only leave what you have made. **