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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.(Bertrand Russell) This quote shows on how life is founded on love and we are guided by knowledge on how we live our life. As the quote states Morrie lived his life, having a loving family and was a very knowledgeable life. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches various lessons about life in this essay I will talk about three Tuesdays. For the first Tuesday I would like to talk about is the 5th Tuesday Family, Morrie teaches…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Relatively rare, between 1.5 and 2.5 people are affected out of a population of 100,000 annually [2].This disease is caused by a continuous deterioration of motor neurons that are located in the brain, brain stem, and spinal chord. This disenables signals from the brain to communicate with the muscles, disabling the extremities to function, or paralyzing them [1]. Symptoms include but are not…

Mrs. Ward Pre-AP English II 29 October 2014 The Theory of Surviving: Stephen Hawking and his battle with ALS. Some diseases can kill you within days, some can cause pain for years. Some diseases are curable, some are not. ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease where it slowly melts your body muscles like a candle. ALS was widely discovered by Americans whenever beloved baseball player Lou Gehrig contracted it (RVWfoundation.org, Biography). ALS also affected another famous figure, the…

Today’s society raises concerns about death. Death is a common topic of speculation that is frightening individuals for various reasons. The unexpected expectations from aging, the anxious and dread feelings to not accomplish certain things in life seem to be cause for concerns to fear the end. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom sheds light on this issue as we follow along his story with his former teacher, Morrie Schwartz, diagnosed with ALS, a terminal illness. Through their short time…

Stephen Hawking once said, “My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.” Stephen Hawking is one of the smartest humans in the world and also has ALS. ALS is a debilitating disease that has no known cure, but Hawking doesn’t let that stop him. Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime also has somewhat of a…

In the novel “ Tuesday’s with Morrie” by Mitch Albom. Morries Tuesday lessons revolved around a theme of acceptance of death.As we watch the beloved professor slowly deteriorate from ALS,he still taught valuable lessons that can be kept for a lifetime. When Morrie was diagnosed with ALS, he did not want people to have sympathy for him because he accepted that this was meant to be. As we saw Morrie’s degression with ALS, Mitch saw how death is apart of life and how there is nothing is…

In the year 2012, a woman named Susan Hammack died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She passed away at age 64 and ended up being diagnosed 2 and a half years prior. Hammack’s disease got to the point of hospice in her own home and put on a medical respirator to help her breath. Many of her symptoms included: twitching or cramping muscles, slurred speech or trouble projecting her voice, loss of motor skills in hands and arms, tripping and falling,…

greatest impact on my life. That person is the one and the only, the legend, the "Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig has done many inspirational things in his life like living with Lou Gehrig 's disease, which is also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. He was diagnosed with this rare disease on his thirty-sixth birthday in the year 1939. This disease is a progressive neurological disorder. The cause of this very rare disease is unknown, and still scientists are researching to find a…

Sue Rodriguez wanted to commit suicide in order to spare her family the agony of caring for her as her amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) worsened. She also wasn’t willing to accept living through the indignity that the final stages of the disease would causer her, and would much rather die peacefully and with self – worth, via physician assisted suicide. However, this particular case became problematic due to Canadian laws that were impeding her from fulfilling her death wish. This case…

Code of Canada states, “no person can consent to have death inflicted upon him” (Kirkey, 2013), which prohibited helping or influencing anyone to end his/her life under any circumstances. In 1992, Sue Rodriguez, a woman with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, appealed to dismiss the validity of section 241(b), which prohibited any form of euthanasia, which means a doctor intentionally ends a person’s life through the administration of specific drugs, at the person’s voluntary and competent request…