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Top Ten Rules On How To Live When You Are Dying:
10. Do not mope and droop even though your are dying. 9. You have so long to live so what! LIVE! 8. Does pitying yourself help? No, it does not, so pity others, and do what you can to help them. 7. Like what Morrie said, "Don't let go to soon; and don't wait too long to let go." (Or something like that.) So embrace what you know you will leave behind, and encourage others to not pity you. 6. Set your standards in life, and reach for the stars. 5. Looking back does not help the here and now, nor does looking forward. Look at the here and the now. 4. Do not let your condition get you down the entire day, let your emotions out on your own time, do not bottle them up. 3. Let the ones you know, and even the ones you do not know, know how you feel, and spread your word to many. 2. Embrace being dependent on others. What is there to be ashamed of? You were dependant on someone when you were a baby, so now you are a baby once again. Live the easy life that you have just been granted. 1. Never regret what you have done, have not done, or still want to do, be happy with what you have accomplished.

Rational:
The reason that I wanted to do a top ten rules list on how to live when you are dying was because with Morrie you have a prime example. Morrie followed all of these rules down to a tee, and did not stray from them an inch. He let himself be himself as his body withered around him and made him unable to move, not really pitying himself his entire day, but only letting out his feelings as he cried once a day. Yet he was not crying for himself alone, he was crying for all those that lived on the Earth and felt pain. He did not see himself as any different from the circle of life and death and the exception was no one. We all are born into this world, and we are all taken out of this world through death. Morrie viewed death, the bane of all humans, as the last step in life, and besides being born the thing we all shared in common.