I have a "technical" problem. While most other parts of my body are perfectly healthy, my liver has ten tumors and I only have a few months to live. I am married to my ideal woman, and am the father of three small children. I should have grieve over my condition, but that would do no good for my wife and children, or for me. So, how should this little time be used? Obviously I should live and take care of my family. While I still have energy, I will spend all my time with my wife and children, doing the most practical things to make it easier for them to enter life without me. The less obvious part is how to teach my children what I should be able to teach them in the next twenty years. My children are too young to talk with me. All parents want to teach their children to distinguish right from wrong, to teach what we think is important, and to teach them how to behave in the face of life's challenges. We also want our children to know a few stories from our lives, which is often a way to teach them how to navigate their own lives. The desire to do that led me to conduct the “last lecture” at the University