Why Is It Important To Morrie Learn To Learn How To Die

On the fourth Tuesday the main point they discuss is death. Morrie made clear that the only way to truly live, is to learn to die first. He said,” Learn how to die, and then you learn how to live.” When acceptance is made that death may happen at anytime, earthly things won’t be as important as the spiritual things in life. These may take the place of those things to feel whole again. This lead to when he talked about how we have appreciate things we haven’t before we did this process. We as a society don’t acknowledge things like, like the earth, stars, clouds, and sun as much as we should. We don’t think much of our relationships until their gone. Morrie learned how to appreciate all things, he appreciates the window he has, the world
he lives in, and the relationships he has. I believe that this chapter is one of the most important chapters because the whole book revolves around the idea of death. The reason Mitch even found Morrie is because a reporter was doing an interview on Morrie and how he reacted to his upcoming death. Morrie is also constantly bringing up his death is all the other chapters. This chapter is just explaining how to truly live. The way to truly live, by Morrie’s words, is to learn to die first. Once he accepted that he could die any day, he saw this world in a different light, he borrowed freely from religions like Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity to make his own unique religion, which is never mentioned in the other chapters. Morrie also talks about the little bird on his shoulder, which came from this came from the Buddhists. This little bird is the one that asks him if he is ready to die, is it even that day, and it asks him if he is being the person he wants to be. This chapter is significant to me because it explains the unique views he has on his own death