It's a spiritual security to have people whom you know will always watch out for you. Morrie gives Mitch one of his most memorable quotes at this time, which is 'love each other or perish.' Morrie can't imagine having to suffer through this disease without the support and care from his family.

Morrie remembers.įor 'The Fifth Tuesday: We Talk about Family,' Mitch brings a clip-on microphone called a lavaliere for Morrie to wear to help record his weakening voice. Mitch asks Morrie if he remembers the famous speech that Lou gave when he retired from baseball announcing that he was the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

The next brief chapter recalls a conversation that Mitch and Morrie had about a newspaper that Morrie kept. Morrie tried to respond thoughtfully to each one. Another woman went on for pages about how feared she would contract ALS. Morrie's sons, Rob and Jon, would often come over to help him respond to the many letters that he received each day. The loving relationships are what matter and are the things we most often take for granted. Things people focus so much time on become less important if people believe they could die at any moment. They miss the everyday events because they are just going through the motions. Morrie told Mitch that 'once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.' People don't fully experience life. Morrie explains that he takes his beliefs from many religions because he was born Jewish but then turned into an agnostic before finding some Buddhist and Christian philosophies that he enjoyed although he returned to practicing Judaism. Morrie has begun using an oxygen machine. Mitch mentions that the newspaper strike is still going on in Detroit, and the lawyers in the O.J.

In 'The Fourth Tuesday: We Talk about Death,' Morrie dives right into their discussion about how people are in denial that they will someday die.

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