Plot
The book begins with Mitch graduating Brandeis University, his college. He introduces his favorite professor (Morrie) to his parents and brother, and them to him. Morrie asks if he will stay in touch, and Mitch immediately promises he will. But there is only one problem. Mitch did not stay in touch. He got so wrapped up in his work, that he lost all contact with his college friends and professors. Over the years, Morrie develops ALS, a horrible and deadly disease. Morrie sends letters to Mitch, but because they are sent from Brandeis University, he thinks they are just asking for money. Mitch only learned about his professor's disease when he saw him being interviewed on Nightline. When Mitch found out about Morrie having ALS, he decided to go see him. When he first saw Morrie, he slumped down in his seat to finish his work. HE should've just ran up to greet him. But he didn't. Morrie and Mitch decide to meet weekly on Tuesdays, so Morrie can teach Mitch the "meaning of life" before the disease complete destroys Morrie's ability to communicate. During the lesson's, Mitch learns that he needs to focus on love and other people, not making as much money as he can. Morrie convinces Mitch to write the book "Tuesdays with Morrie", so Morrie can share his virtues with the whole world. When Morrie dies at the end of the book, Mitch realizes he can still communicate and learn from him, even when he's dead.
Summary #1 "The Curriculum"
The first chapter is introducing the ‘class’ that Morrie will teach to Mitch. It describes the setting as Morrie’s house by a window, and that it would meet on Tuesdays. The subject of this class will be the Meaning of Life, and it is said to be taught from Morrie’s experiences. It is said that there were no grades, and no books were required, even though the topics love, work, community, family, aging, forgiveness, and death. The last lecture was brief, and the graduation was his funeral. It is said that at the end, you were supposed to write a long paper about what you learned. It’s then described that that paper ids this book. It then says that Mitch is the only student. The chapter ends with a foreword describing Mitch leaving his professor Morrie Schwartz after the graduation, which ends with Mitch leaving Morrie for the first time, saying that he will keep in touch.
Summary #2 "The Syllabus
This chapter is about Morrie’s deterioration. He contracts violent asthma, which lessens his ability to do many things. He finds out that he has ALS, a very fatal disease. It shows his physical deterioration from, a cane, to a walker, and then permanently to a wheelchair. Over the process he lost his ability to walk free, his privacy, and when he told his students about the disease, his secret. He decides to let people study him as he dies, and not let the rest of his life go to waste. He even has a ‘living funeral’, when everyone prays and says things about him, but he is able to be there and hear them. It then concludes with: “In fact, the most unusual part of his life was about to unfold.”
Summary #3 "The Student
This chapter is describing Mitch’s life after he graduates college. He does not keep in touch with Morrie, because he is so wrapped up in his work. The death of his close uncle invigorated him to live life to the fullest, and to make as much money as possible. He became a columnist for the Detroit Free Press and quickly increased in income, buying a new house and investing in stocks. He married his loving wife Janine, who wanted to have a family, but never could. He threw his mail away from his University away because he thought they were asking for money, without knowing it was Morrie informing him of his deadly illness. He only learned when he heard the story on his television.
Summary #4 "The Audiovisual"
Morrie is refusing to be depressed about his soon-coming death, and wishes to lead the rest of his life out fully. He comes up with many short philosophical quotes, and one of his friends decided to send it to the Boston Globe, which it is made into a feature article. A Nightline producer saw this article, and decided to interview him. Morrie asks the interviewer (Ted Koppel) a few questions about his faith and feelings before going on with the interview. In the interview, he talks about the afterlife and Morrie needing more and more dependency on others. The chapter ends with MItch hearing the program and realizing he forgot all about Morrie.

Summary #5 "The Orientation"
The chapter begins with Mitch seeing Morrie on the street. He is not ready to see him yet, so Mitch finishes his business, feeling nervous about his once great friend being so near. He reunites with Morrie and Morrie is very happy to see him. Morrie decides to tell MItch what it is like to die. The chapter ends with a flashback, when Mitch first went to college and tried to act tough, but Morrie softened him up, with them eventually becoming great friends. Summary #6 "The Classroom The author states that Morrie has been talking to him for hours. Morrie says he’s more interesting to people now, because he’s kind of like a bridge between the dead and the living. Mitch is surprised that Morrie still likes him, even though he had no contact to him for 16 years. Mitch realizes that his life didn’t turn out the way he wanted it, and all he does is work. Mitch felt sorry for Morrie, because he knew he would die soon and that he had no control over it. The chapter ends with a flashback, with Mitch picking out many books for Morrie, and Morrie teaching Mitch about the “Tension of Opposites”
Summary #7 "Taking Attendance" The chapter begins with Mitch flying to London to cover the sporting event of Wimbledon. He remembers a talk with Morrie, when he said that he had his own culture, just relating to others and never getting sucked up into anything. Mitch realizes that his only culture is work, and thats all he thinks about, When he heads home to Detroit, he sees that the workers at the Detroit Free Press have all gone on strike. He is completely out of work and doesn’t know what to do. He then decides to go to Morrie’s house the next Tuesday.
Summary #8 "The First Tuesday" The chapter begins with Mitch entering Morrie’s house. He has brought food, so they begin to eat together. While eating, Morrie states he is even starting to enjoy all his helpers and caregivers, because he feels like he’s a baby again. Morrie says that since he is dying, he feels much closer to the tragedies and deaths that happen around the world, almost like he knew them personally. Mitch began discussing that everything they seemed to do together was on Tuesdays, from classes, to writing essays together, and now to this. Morrie said that all that really matters in life is to love and be loved, because it is the only rational act. The chapter ends with a flashback, with Morrie teaching a class with Mitch as a student, and Morrie goes into a long discussion about silence.
Summary #9 "The Second Tuesday" The chapter begins with Mitch returning to Morrie’s house yet again. He always stopped all work and completely devoted himself whenever he went to see Morrie. While Mitch was talking to Morrie, he released that the disease was progressing alarmingly fast. Morrie already was unable to use his legs, and he could hardly lift his arms at all. Morrie said that he never tried to feel self-pity, because he wants to live every single second he has left well. Mitch then carried Morrie to his recliner. The chapter ended with a flashback, where Morrie was teaching a class. The class was about human reactions and feelings, and they did a trust test. Morrie said that you needed to believe what you feel, and be able to depend on others.

Chapter Summary #10 "The Third Tuesday" When Mitch returns to Morrie’s house the following Tuesday, he brings a recorder. He says he wants to save the conversations between him and Morrie for later. Morrie says he wants to tell Mitch the story of his life and that he wants to record it, too. They then discuss about having regrets in life, like lost friends, or secrets, or anything else. Morrie says that everybody gets wrapped up in a trillion little things, and “[y]ou need somebody to probe you in [the right] direction”, and that everybody needs a teacher. After he leaves, Mitch decides to create a list of everything he wants to ask Morrie, like “Death[,] Fear[,] Aging[,] Greed [,] Marriage[,] Family[,] Society[,] Forgiveness [and] a meaningful life.” The chapter ends with a flashback of Mitch writing an Honors Thesis.
Chapter #11 "The Audiovisual Part 2" The chapter begins with Ted Koppel coming for another interview. The first one had been such a success that they needed to do a follow-up. Because of Morrie’s familiarity with Ted, there is much more warmth between the two men. Morrie begins to explain that he’s slowly losing the ability to speak and move, and that he needs those things to express his feelings to people. He talks about how his friend he’s known for 35 years is going deaf, and soon they’ll barely be anyway for them to communicate. Morrie then reads a letter from a teacher who only teaches children who have lost a parent. As Morrie reads his response he says that he lost his mother as a child, and wishes he could have been in a class like that. He begins crying and says the loss pains him, even 70 years later.
Chapter #12 "The Professor" This chapter is about Morrie’s childhood. The chapter begins with Morrie, who is currently 8 years old, delivering the news of his mothers death. He was only eight when she died, and was very depressed. After the funeral, Morrie and his brother David went to a small hotel in Connecticut so they could relax. They were playing outside in the rain, and the next morning, Morrie’s brother had polio. Morrie thought that he had caused his brother to get polio, so he went to a synagogue to pray. His family was very poor, so he had to work to help pay for there food at only 9 years old. But a saving embrace came into Morrie’s life, his new stepmom, Eva. She was very nice to Morrie and David and made them feel much better. She was very intent on them getting a good education, because that was the only chance of their family surviving. When Morrie was a teenager, his dad brought him to the fur factory where he worked. They tried to get him a job there, but there wasn’t any room. He then decided the only job he could be was a teacher. The chapter ends with a quote from Henry Adams. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Chapter #13 "The Fourth Tuesday" The chapter begins with Mitch returning to Morrie’s home the next tuesday. The topic they decided to discuss was death. Morrie says that no one really believes that there going to die, so they never really appreciate life. He says to always act like this might be your last day on earth, and be ready to die at any moment with no regrets. “Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Morie said he never thought about dying until he contracted ALS and death became all too real to him. He said the only problem with thinking about death is you are often less ambitious. If you're constantly thinking about death, you probably won’t take as many risks. It will make you concentrate more on spiritual things then other things you used to think of as important. He says that dying people appreciate the world the most, since they know they won't have it fo much longer. The chapter then talks about Morrie receiving and answering various letters from people who saw him in his shows. The chapter ends with a flashback about the baseball player Lou Gehrig.
Chapter #14 "The Fifth Tuesday"
The chapter begins with Mitch meeting Morrie the following tuesday. It is the first time in 35 years he will not be teaching a class this fall. The topic they have chosen to discuss is family. Morrie says that family is the one true foundation in life. “If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.” Morrie says that his family makes it so much easier for him with this disease, and he probably wouldn’t be able to take it without them by his side. He says that raising kids is very challenging, but there is nothing like it in the world. He says it will be so painful to have to leave his kids and pass on. Then Mitch begins to talk about his family. He has one older sister and a younger brother. His younger brother got cancer, and began getting worked on in Spain. He eventually became so distant from his family they couldn’t even understand him, speaking in spanish and never communicating with his family. The chapter ends with a flashback of Mitch and his brother sledding down a hill.
Chapter #15 "The Sixth Tuesday" When Mitch comes back to Morrie’s house the following tuesday, he is greeted by Morrie’s wife. She says that Morrie hasn’t been feeling too well. He can only eat soft foods now, so the food brought from last tuesday was untouched. When Mitch began to talk to Morrie, he realized that his cough had worsened. It was “a dry, dusty cough that shook his chest and made his head jerk forward.” The topic Mitch decided to discuss was emotions. Morrie says that you need to learn to detach from emotions. That you needed to fully experience that emotion, know what it is and how it feels, and then be able to just back away. Morrie began to cough very hard, almost choking on his own phlegm. After nearly dying, Morrie says that he doesn’t want to die like that, he wants to die peacefully, without any emotions at all. The chapter ends with a flashback, where Morrie says he would like to be reincarnated as a gazelle.
Chapter #16 "The Professor Part 2" This chapter is a flashback from Morrie’s life early after he graduated college. He began to work at a mental hospital near Washington, D.C. He saw patients that would cry all night or scream all day. There was one lady that laid face down in the hall for hours every day. He noticed that most patients had been rejected or ignored in their lives, and many came from rich families were all they had was money. The chapter then flashes forward to Morrie teaching at Brandeis University. Morrie taught many cultural classes, so he often had ‘radical’ students in his classes. When they discovered that some students could lose their status in the military if they couldn’t keep a specific grade point average, he decided to give them all A’s. Many students said that he was like no other teacher they’ve ever had. The chapter ends with a flash forward of Mitch reading about a tribe that believes in souls.
Chapter #17 "The Seventh Tuesday"
The chapter begins with Morrie finally having someone wipe his behind. He has now lost all privacy, and he was basically dependant on others for everything. Morrie says he enjoys getting unconditional attention and getting to be a baby again. Later in the day, they begin to talk about the fear of aging. Morrie says that the older you get the more you know about life, and that he even embraced aging. The older you get the wiser you get, and the more you appreciate life. He says that even though he envies younger people a little, but he is able to detach from it easily. Morrie says that it’s your time to be your age, and his time to be his. The chapter ends with a quote: “Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardizes itself.” -W.H.Auden
Chapter #18 "The Eighth Tuesday"
The chapter begins with Mitch showing a newspaper to Morrie. It says. “I don’t want my tombstone to say I didn't own a network.” The quote was from the billionaire media mogul Ted Turner. Morrie says that all we care about is wealth and money, and that more is good. He says that neither money nor power will make you as happy as loving friends or family. Mitch noticed that no material things in his house has changed for years. They still had the same car, TV, same everything. Morrie said that all you needed to be happy was devote your time, love, and care to other people. Money can’t really make you happy at all. The chapter ends with a quote: “‘Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.’ -Mahatma Gandhi.
Chapter #19 "The Ninth Tuesday"
The chapter begins with Mitch returning to Morrie’s house once again. It had started to turn to fall, and the strike at Mitch’s work has stagnated. Morrie says that the sickness is really getting to him. He can barely move at all, needing help to move his legs and head often. They decided that Mitch would write about his sessions with Morrie. They thought of it as their last thesis together. Morrie said that he decided what he wanted to have put on his tombstone. He wanted it to say, “A Teacher to the Last”. Mitch noticed that people with much smaller problems then Morrie are always so stressed out, while Morrie was dying but staying completely calm. Morrie says that when he finally dies, he doesn’t want any untold goodbyes or promises, and everyone staying completely calm.
Chapter #20 "The Tenth Tuesday"
The following tuesday when Mitch went to see Morrie, he brought his wife, Janine. Morrie’s condition was still worsening. He could sometimes cough for entire hours at a time, and could barely sleep. When Morrie met Janine, they connected almost instantly. Janine was a professional singer, but never sang for anyone. Except this one time. She sang to Morrie, bringing him to tears. Morrie says that marriages weren't successful very often because people barely had anytime to know the other person, or even learn themselves. Morrie and Charlotte had been married for 44 years, and they can communicate with just a glance or a small facial expression. Morrie says you need a few specific things to make a marriage to successful. The ability to respect your spouse, to be able to compromise, to be able to talk openly, and to have a common set of values. The chapter ends with a flashback of Mitch talking to Morrie about a book from the Bible.
Chapter #21 "The Eleventh Tuesday" The chapter begins with Mitch hitting Morrie in the back. He needed to do this regularly, to knock the poison out of his lungs. Mitch noticed that even with all the time we take trying to make ourselves look better, but nature always takes its way. Later in the day, Morrie said that everyone feels threatened. He notices everyone is scared of being homeless or losing their job, so they treat money like a god. Morrie said you can listen to the little things, like laws, but try to have your own culture as in the way you think. The chapter ends with a flashback. People are cheering “Were Number One!” over and over, and Morrie asks what's wrong with being number 2.
Chapter #22 "The Audiovisual Part 3"
The chapter begins with Koppel coming for his third and final visit. Koppel asked how bad the disease had got, and Morrie simply raised his hand as far as he could, halfway up his belly. Morrie says that he wants to die now, not be forever immobile like Stephen Hawking. Morrie said if he was unable to talk or communicate, he wouldn't really be living at all. Morrie told the television audience to “Be compassionate...take responsibility for one another...[and] [l]ove each other or die.” The chapter ends with Morrie saying that the disease is knocking at his spirit, but it won't get it very soon.
Chapter #23 "The Twelfth Tuesday" Mitch has returned for another Tuesday session with Morrie. The first thing Morrie says is “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.” Mitch asked if there is anyone he would like to forgive before he died. He said that there is only one person. Morrie had a good friend named Norman. They were very good friends for a long time. One day, Morrie’s wife Charlotte had to have a very serious operation. Norman and his wife never got in touch or asked how she was doing, even though they knew about it. Morrie never forgave him for ignoring them. But a few years ago, Norman died from cancer. Morrie felt so bad, and wished he could have forgave Norman and could have been friends again. The chapter ends with a flashback of Morrie saying where he wanted to be buried, and how Mitch would visit him even after he was dead.
Chapter #24 "The Thirteenth Tuesday"
The chapter begins with Morrie saying that he wanted to be cremated. He even joked to the rabbi, “[m]ake sure they don’t overcook me.” Morrie said that everybody was afraid of death, thinking it was contagious. Mitch said that Morrie had been having even more and more violent hacking spells, the latest one lasting multiple hours. Morrie said during that time, he felt a certain peace, and felt like he was about to die. Morrie said that death can’t break your relationships with things. after you die, you can still love and connect things in the world of living. Mitch then asked Morrie what he would do if he could have one day perfectly healthy. Morrie said that he would swim in the morning, talk with his friends at lunch, and go for a walk to see some of nature. Then he’d go to dinner with his friends and dance until they were all tired. The chapter ends with a story about a wave learning he is just part of the ocean.
Chapter #25 "The Fourteenth Tuesday"
Morrie was not in very good shape. Charlotte said he was “not doing well” which basically mean the last few days have arrived. Morrie is very weak. Morrie was completely bedridden, and one of his aphorisms rang through his head “if your in bed, you're dead.” There was a 24-hour nurse constantly at Morrie’s bedside, making sure that Morrie stays alive. He was as small as a child. Morrie could barely talk , but they managed to exchange some last words. Morrie said that Mitch had a good soul, and Mitch started crying. After 25 years, Morrie finally got Mitch to cry.
Chapter #26 "Graduation"
“Morrie died on a Saturday morning.” His sons Rob and Job were there, his wife Charlotte, and her cousin Marsha. Morrie had fallen into a coma 2 days after Mitch last saw him, and his family slept in shifts next to him. The one second that no one was in the room with him, Morrie stopped breathing. Mitch believes he did this on purpose, so no one will be traumatized to see him die. Hundreds of people wanted to attend his funeral, but only a few carefully selected family and friends were allowed in. When Mitch walked up to the grave, he remembered that Morrie told him to talk to him, even as he is dead. Mitch began to have a discussion with Morrie, and it seemed every normal to him. He then realized it was a Tuesday.
Chapter #27 "Conclusion"
Mitch sent a letter to his lost brother, saying that he loved him and wanted to get in touch with him. A few days later, Mitch received a fax from him. It said what he had been doing the last few weeks, and had a few jokes in it. He said that they could talk later. The chapter ends with a description of why this book was made. Morrie came up with the idea, and thought of it as their final thesis. Many publishers expressed interest, and they early payments helped cover many of Morrie’s medical bills. Morrie decided to call the book “Tuesdays with Morrie”. The chapter ends with Mitch saying that Morrie’s teaching goes on, even after he has passed.
Book review on Tuesdays with Morrie “Tuesdays with Morrie” is really a very touching book. The author is Mitch Albom on the cover. However, there is another writer of the book: Albom’s old professor, Morrie, the hero of this book. In the story, the author had lost contact with his professor in the college, Morrie, for nearly 20 years. However, one day, when Mitch saw Morrie again on the television, he found out that Morrie has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It was terminal by the time he had discovered the disease and he was going to die within a year. Caring about Morrie, the author came back to his professor again, and the last class of the professor began. It took place once a week, every Tuesday, in his house. The student was the author. The subject of the class was the meaning of life. It was taught from experience, it was not taught in school. The author wrote their class into a book-“Tuesdays with Morrie” and it is the “final gift” from Morrie. I love this book. This is the book which has impressed me most among all books I have read, probably because of Morrie. He was brave, optimistic and humorous. When he was facing the illness, he suffered great pain and he needed to be totally dependent on others. For example, as he said, “I need someone to wipe my ass for me.” It was very embarrassing. Also, it was very depressing for him to know that he was going to die soon. But instead of mourning and grieving, Morrie tried to live happily and meaningfully. He said joke to delight others. He also thought himself to be very lucky despite his illness because he had love from his relatives and friends. He knew how to find what he had instead of keep thinking how unlucky he was. It was very difficult. In addition, Morrie was very clever, sensible and knew what he needed. He would not follow blindly the culture-chasing after, work for money only and neglect the most important thing in the world: love. He was able to realize that the culture was not right and tried to teach people to think what was really important to them, so that they will not wait until they are dying before they know what they need most is love, and money cannot provide comfort. Even when he was dying, he continued to do so by helping the author to write this book. It also showed that he cared for people he did not know and he used every minute of his life to do meaningful things. That’s why I respect him so much. This book includes the fourteen classes they had and each covered a topic, for example, forgiveness, family, the world. From these lessons, I have learnt the important of love. Anyway, the most important thing I have learnt is that I have found my aim. In the past, I was very busy at studying, so busy that I started to study mechanically, like a robot. I lost my original aim of studying without noticing. I studied because others studied and I started to study for glory, praises and money in future. I was chasing after the wrong, meaningless thing, without realizing that. Also, I was so concentrated on studying that I neglected the love and care from my families and friends. I took all that for granted without return. Yet, in reality, they are the most important things to me. After reading this book, I finally realized what I had done in these years. Through this book, I have found my real aim of studying again-to contribute to the society and give happiness to people. And I learn to give more love and care to people around us and treasure them. Furthermore, I have learnt to treasure ２every day and everything, to live every day fully and meaningfully, to love and to be loves, so that we will not regret until it is too late, when we are dying. In this book, the scene that impressed me most was that in the last Tuesday, Mitch was dying and he said goodbye to Mitch. Mitch cried, first time for many years. It was really touching by seeing the intense love between them, like a real father and a son. It indeed set a good example of how to love. I cried too, after that I have attended the class also through reading the book and I have treated Morrie like my teacher. The author has made this a good book by writing it well, through which the lessons of Morrie are taught more impressively. First, throughout the book, in between the last 14 lessons of Morrie, the author would include dome incidents happened about Morrie and Mitch 2o years ago. That made a comparison between the present and the past and we can know more about the old professor before he got the illness. Also, it occasionally quoted some famous speech related to the topic so that the lessons could be more poetic and impressive. Moreover, the author did not try to describe how much the professor suffered, how popular he was or how optimistic he was directly. Instead, he only expressed all these through the speech and behaviour of the characters so that your heart is deeply touched by the truth. There is a lot writing skills we can learn. After reading this book I was touched deeply and I have learnt a lot of thing. It help me to start a new life, a more meaningful life as I have found what I really need in this book. That is love, and the love in this book has made me feel very warm. You must read this book! I am sure you can learn something from it. The Tuesday lessons of life were not just for the author, it had been written for all of us. It was the precious gift from Morrie before he died. Just like the author said, “Though Morrie had died, his love and spirit and love remain, and the teaching goes on”.
Book Review: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
1. In your own opinion, what makes this story unique and interesting?
2. How can you relate to the story? Has anything similar to this happened to you?
3. Were you touched by the relationship of Morrie and Mitch? How?
4. Mention 3 of Morrie'spersonal quotations or lines that have had an impact on you. How have they affected you?
5. Has the story made you decide to change? In what way?
6. At what point in the story did you decide that it was interesting to read? Why?
7. What lesson in life did you learn from the story? How can you apply it in your everyday living?
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"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." (52) – Morrie
Morrie tells this to Mitch during the first Tuesday. Throughout the novel, Morrie emphasizes the importance of giving out love and showing affection. He thinks that a lot of people feel that they do not deserve love and if they let love in, they become too soft. He quotes Levine in saying, "love is the only rational act" (52). They way Morrie emphasizes this quote on the first Tuesday, foreshadows that this will be on of the recurring themes throughout the novel. We later see that Morrie derived this theory due to the lack of love present throughout his childhood. Morrie's mother died when he was very young and his father was often working and not interested in showing affection toward Morrie and his brother. When Eva came into their house she provided them with all the motherly love of which they had been deprived. Morrie realized just how important it is to be compassionate towards others and emphasized that for the remainder of his life.
"Death ends a life, not a relationship." (174) - Morrie
Morrie states that as long as we can love each other and remember this feeling of love, we can die without ever going away because all of the love we have created will still remain. He states that after we die, we live on in the hearts of everyone we have touched and nurtured while we were on earth. This also emphasizes and expands on Morrie's concept of always giving love and compassion; if we are able to form these loving relationships while we are on earth, not only will we live more fulfilled and substantial lives, but when we die our love and relationship will remain in the hearts of those who we love. At the end of the novel, during Morrie's funeral, Mitch has an internal conversation with Morrie. He feels very comfortable and serine in the conversation; this is because he and Morrie had expressed their love and compassion for one another during Morrie's life, and now their relationship is in each others hearts.
"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." (82) – Morrie
Morrie says this during the fourth Tuesday when he and Mitch discuss death. Morrie feels that people refuse to believe that they will one day die, and therefore, do not live there lives as fully as they would have liked and also have many regrets as they become older and their death becomes closer. He feels that once we learn and accept that we are one day going to die, we learn to live our lives fully and without any regrets. Morrie repeats this quote frequently throughout the chapter to emphasize how important and helpful it is to accept death, and what a benefit it would be to living the remainder of our lives. Morrie also wants Mitch to see how he is able to appreciate the smaller, more genuine things in life, knowing that his death is approaching.