Have you ever thought about how you would die? I'm sure you were hoping it would be a quick and painless death. For a man in his seventies it was a slow and time-consuming death. He contracted a life-destroying disease, ALS. However, for this veteran, he saw it more as a blessing than the work of an invisible force. She thought it was fortuitous. Serendipity plays a life-changing role in Tuesdays with Morrie because this element of accidentally finding good fortune transforms Mitch Album from a materialistic workaholic to a sincere human being; it also helps Morrie Schwartz get his story across before it's too late. I'm sure everyone has or will have a serendipitous moment in their life. It all depends on how you look at it. Morrie has contracted ALS but sees the brighter side of his disease as it slowly eats away at your body. “I am on the last great journey…” (33). He knows he will die, but he sees the bright side; which is that, unlike most deaths, if you die, he gets to say goodbye to all his loved ones. There is a lot of serendipity in this life-touching book. Mitch taking Morrie's classes in college began the ripple effect of serendipity. Many people were serendipitous in this book. Not only did Mitchlucky manage to catch his old college professor on television, but we readers benefited from learning Morrie's lessons about and for life. In Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch was the character with the most serendipitous moments. From the beginning he was lucky not to know it. The largestD. The serendipitous moment of Hoffman 2 must have been when Mitch was flipping through the channels.