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This 3 page paper discusses Mitch Ablom's book "Tuesdays with Morrie" and how it changes our perceptions of illness and death. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and as a result, death is our last great taboo. It could be that we think if we dont acknowledge it, it will never happen to us. This paper considers
Mitch Alboms Tuesdays with Morrie and how it changes our perception of death as something fearsome and unnatural that happens to others. Discussion Tuesdays with Morrie was on the best
seller list for four years. The plot is easy to explain: Mitch Albom lost touch with one of his favorite professors, Morrie Schwartz and got in contact with him years
later, when Schwartz was dying. The book details their last "semester" together, as Albom visited Morrie every week, just as if he were attending a class with his old instructor.
But this bare bones outline doesnt do anything to really explain the power of the book. That lies in Morries reaction to his illness. He is diagnosed in 1994 with
"amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrigs disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There was no known cure. How did I get it? Morrie asked. Nobody knew. Is
it terminal? Yes. So Im going to die? Yes, you are, the doctor said. Im very sorry" (Albom, 1999, p. 7). ALS is always fatal, no exceptions; Morrie had received
his death sentence. Albom describes the way in which ALS steals its victims bodies, little by little. The nerves are impaired, usually beginning with the legs, so that it
becomes impossible to walk, or drive, or even sit up. First Morrie lost the strength to press the brake pedal: "That was the end of his driving" (Albom, 1999, p.
7). Then he bought a cane because he kept tripping, which was "the end of his walking free" (Albom, 1999, p. 7). Then he had to have someone help him
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