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“Death ends a life, not a relationship” (Albom 174).This quote or important piece of knowledge that came from Morrie Schwartz in the book Tuesdays With Morrie.This is important because people think that when their loved ones die that it's over and they're gone but that is not true because death can't end a relationship only we can.Morrie teaches people to learn how to stop avoiding Regrets, learning how to accept that Death is natural and learning how to say goodbye to loved ones. The first lesson Morrie teaches is to learn how to stop avoiding your regrets.Morrie’s opinion on topic:Morrie believes that people avoid their regrets and and he teaches Mitch how to stop avoiding his regrets because he knows avoiding those regrets you will die regretting things you shouldn’t.An Example from Morrie is ”What if today were my last day on earth” (Albom 64 ).I think that avoiding regrets is something everyone does and they don't mean to do it but they do it and it just takes someone knowledgeable to remind them to face your regrets and doing that will help them go peacefully.
I think that avoiding regrets is something everyone does and they don't mean to do it but they do it and it just takes someone knowledgeable to remind them
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Morrie teaches that regrets make your life harder so it's best that you face them.Next Morrie teaches us to accept death because if we don't then we won't die peacefully.Lastly Morrie teaches how to say goodbye to loved ones because the relationship with that person doesn't have to end.Death is probably one of the hardest things to accept especially when it’s a loved one and Morrie Schwartz teaches us that death doesn't end a relationship it ends a life.that is important because it can make saying goodbye 10x’s easier than it was

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