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How Does Tuesdays With Morrie Teach How To Live A Good Life

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Tuesdays With Morrie is an extraordinary book with lots of lessons on life and death. Morrie teaches Mitch to forgive yourself and forgive others and to live a good life because you don’t know when it's going to end. He certainly taught a lot of people some good lessons on everything ranging from money to death. This essay is only going to focus on the lessons on life and death.
Life is a beautiful thing which people take for granted and waste it on drugs and drinking.Morrie teaches Mitch many lessons on not fearing death and being nice to people because you don’t when you will “kick the bucket”. Life should be a beautiful thing not filled with war anger and fear of death. Morrie says “What if today were my last day on Earth”. I feel

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