Summary of The Syllabus
Albom continues his story Tuesdays with Morrie by detailing Morrie’s disease. Morrie had developed the disease ALS, which is better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The author explains “ALS is like a candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax. Often, it begins with the legs and works its way up.” Steadily he gets worse and loses most function of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. He began to get many visitors asking him questions about life and death. He also taught people about those subjects. He went to a funeral of one of his colleagues and found it depressing that “those people saying those wonderful things, and [he] never got to hear any of it.”