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Accepting Death In Tuesdays With Morrie By Mitch Albom

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The book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is about how to die graciously and how your life will change when you accept death. Mitch is a young man who focuses on the things in life that don’t matter, but after his favorite professor becomes sick, his life will change forever. Throughout the book, Morrie teaches Mitch about nine different topics that are going to change his life. Morrie says “Once you learn to die, you learn how to live” (Albom 82). Tuesdays with Morrie gives you an insight on death that is rarely seen by society, it views death as a way of creating a better life. Most people would say that Tuesdays with Morrie is about how to live life because of the lessons, words of wisdom, and overall feel of the book, I believe

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