A dad's council

Just saw this report on a father who found out that he has cancewr and got six of friends together to be a council of dads for his twin three old daughters. At first I must admit I welled up with tears over the beauty of this effort and the way in which the father had appeared to cover every aspect of his personality to enhance his daughter's life after he is gone. As a parent I immediately identified with this man's desire for his children but, then I had a negative thought about what is and should be viewed upon as a wondrous gift. Call it synicism but I then thought two concepts that detracted from this approach. the first was that he was really making him self into a legend with the council constantly recounting the exploits of dear old dad and his short comings almost being sinful to bring up. He had entered into a process that in some form would canonize him to these daughters. Secondly, I believe that some of my dad's were qualities helped form the person I am today and felt that this process with all of its fantastic qualities would not give them some of the toughness in the future that they may need. I hope by seeing me in all of my frailities and roughness that my children will learn both the correct and incorrect ways I have handle life.
After, thinking about this I came down on the side that doing this was brilliant and to a degree self serving. My synical side has ashamedly drifted back into the deep dark respites of my soul and a tear is once again allowed to well up. I admire this man and what appears to be his efforts to make sure his daughter's lives fuller, more wondrous, and loving. I do not know if seeing the negative in such a glorious idea that he is lecturing on and wrote a book about is a character flaw or just seeing the world through regular eye glasses. Let me know what you think.