How awful! Life is way too short :-(

The Chronicle:

An engineering professor at Pennsylvania State University's main campus collapsed in front of his class on Tuesday morning and later died, the university announced yesterday. Michael J. Horman, a 38-year-old associate professor of architectural engineering and native of Australia, was an expert in the design and construction of environmentally sound "green" buildings. The university did not announce a cause of death. Mr. Horman leaves a wife and two children.

Back in March, it was a similar tragic story at a different university:

A professor at the University of Michigan at Flint died suddenly on Monday in the middle of a lecture, a local newspaper reported.

According to The Flint Journal, Matthew Hilton-Watson, a 40-year-old associate professor of foreign languages, collapsed “mid-sentence” during an honors English class, hit his head on a table, and began suffering from a seizure. He was pronounced dead shortly afterward. The cause of death was unknown as of Monday evening.

I am reminded of the "last lecture" by Randy Pausch, about a year before he died at 48.