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Also called "Lou Gehrig's Disease", nerve cells become weak essentially causing painful and weakened movements.

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Brandeis is a university located in Massachuesets, and Morrie had been teaching there for almost thirty year before retiring.

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Mitch Albom was a former student of Morrie, and talked to him each Tuesday in the dying days of his life.

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Morrie's death was a very sad passing, but many including author Mitch Albom believe that he died a very happily.  He was able to spend time with all of the people he wanted to say goodbye to.  Read about his legacy above.

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Though this sounds gloomy, Morrie's final goal was to end his life simply happy. Each day, he tried to fufill that wish and in the end he did. It is very satisfying to know that he died a happy man, even with the ALS that he had.

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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else. " - listen to the Morrie Schwartz' full podcast below, full of inspirational quotes relating to his life.

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When Morrie was of a very young age,  Morrie's mother passed away of an unknown sickness, and shortly after that, his brother was diagnosed with Polio.  Morrie became very sad after those two incidents.  Go to https://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/ to learn more about Polio.