Death and Dying Class

Death and Dying class is one of the most confusing, difficult, and depressing classes that I have ever taken, but somehow, I sort of like it. There are an abundance of quizzes, tests and lectures. I don’t really like the lecture style class though, I tend to prefer classes that are more of a discussion. On all of the quizzes the questions are really specific, if I were a teacher, I would not ever ask anything so specific. But that is what makes it so interesting, we go so in depth about everything we do. We just had a quiz on Tuesdays with Morrie, which was a very good book. There was something very different about the structure of the book though, the author, Mitch Albom, had meetings with Morrie every Tuesday, and he wrote down everything that was said during that meeting. It sort of reminds me of something a newspaper would do, which is quite fitting because Mitch Albom was a journalist. The story is very heartwarming and inspirational. It is about a man named Morrie who was a professor at Brandeis University, where the author went. The reader eventually finds out that Morrie has ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. This is when one loses total control of their muscles over a long period of time. Morrie is old, but he is full of wisdom. He is a very positive person. He doesn’t think about death negatively, he thinks that it is just the next step. There are so many great life lessons for people of any age in this book, and Morrie is always optimistic with his points of view. There is more to the story than the meetings and lessons. Mitch ultimately finds who he actually is again after the meetings with Morrie. Before that, his life was ruled by money. Tuesdays with Morrie is not only a story with multiple life lessons in it, but it is also a book about transformation. It most definitely one of the best books I have read.