Most Important Passage

In my mind the most important passage in the book is the section when Morrie and Mitch talk about death. This occurs on the fourth Tuesday that they meet. It starts out as Morrie tells Mitch that everyone knows they are going to die, but they try not to believe it. They keep telling themselves that something like what happened to Morrie could never happen to them. Morrie proposes that it would be better if people were prepared at all times to die. This way, while you are alive you do as much as you can because you don't want to die after living a dull, empty life. Morrie talks about how the Buddhists start every day asking themselves, "Is this the day that I am going to die? Am I being the person that I want to be?" One of the most important quotes in the whole book comes in this passage:"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live." Morrie states that once you are faced with death, you look at everything very differently. You also make much more room for spiritual things when you are dying. You appreciate many things that no one else finds important at all. Morrie does this with the window in his house. Since he can't leave his house, he uses the window to see the beauty of the outdoors and to feel the breeze. He says that he is drawn to nature like he is seeing it for the first time. This is because he appreciates it more because he knows his time is near. Mitch also reminds Morrie of Lou Gehrig, the man his disease is named after. He tells him of Lou's speech announcing his retirement:"Today I feel like the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Morrie says that while Lou Gehrig may have felt this way he doesn't always look at in the same way. He does though try to find the bright side in everything that he is going through. In this section, Morrie receives letters from all those that he touched on his "Nightline" appearance. It is cool to see how many people that saw him were moved by it. There are many students, colleagues, etc. that go to see him. There are even people that have never met him that want to meet him because he was so inspiring. Throughout the whole book I couldn't find another passage as meaningful to me as this. Although, there were many close seconds.