<P> Morrie's father, Charlie Schwartz, was a Russian immigrant who left Russia to escape the Russian Army . His mother died when he was only 8 years old . After his wife died, Charlie Schwartz remarried a Romanian woman named Eva who became Morrie's stepmother . Morrie had a younger brother, David Schwartz, who developed polio at a young age which causes him to be paralysed . Later in Morrie's life, Charlie suffered from a heart attack after running from two muggers . Morrie's whole family was Jewish . As Morrie grew up, he stopped believing in this faith and instead adopted multiple beliefs from a variety of different religions . </P> <P> In adulthood Morrie married a woman named Charlotte and had two sons named Rob and Jon Schwartz . </P> <P> Tuesdays with Morrie is a book about Morrie and a former student of his, Mitch Albom . After seeing Morrie interviewed on Nightline with Ted Koppel, Albom started flying to Morrie's home in Massachusetts from Detroit for Tuesday visits . Mitch had discovered that Morrie had ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), a terminal neurological disease . After about fourteen visits Morrie finally lost his battle with ALS when it took his ability to breathe . Albom's book is full of the lessons and wisdom that Morrie imparts to him in his final stage of life . </P> <Ul> <Li> with Alfred H. Stanton: The Mental Hospital: A Study of Institutional Participation in Psychiatric Illness and Treatment . Basic Books 1950, ISBN 978 - 1 - 59147 - 617 - 7 (2009 edition) </Li> <Li> with Charlotte Green Schwartz: Social Approaches to Mental Patient Care . Columbia University Press 1964 </Li> <Li> with Emmy Lanning Shockley: The Nurse and the Mental Patient: a Study in Interpersonal Relations . Wiley 1966, ISBN 978 - 0 - 471 - 76610 - 0 </Li> <Li> Letting Go: Morrie's Reflections on Living While Dying . Walker & Company 1996, ISBN 978 - 0 - 8027 - 1315 - 5 </Li> </Ul>

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