Aye-Ohh-Pee!

So, IOP week has officially begun for me. Time to think about death. We've been reading Tuesdays With Morrie for Senior Seminar and so the idea of death, I admit, has been on my mind a bit lately. Morrie suffers from the same disease that the guy from the Frontline special does. It's called ALS; better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The disease has such a powerful emotional effect. Just imagine, knowing you're going to die, and being reminded by it everyday by the loss of bodily control, is almost hard to even imagine. It's like taking the aging process and speeding it up. Taking how much you'd have aged in 10 years and cramming it into 2. Instead of slowly losing your hand eye coordination, you lose it drastically everyday. It's like being in a train that's speeding towards a wall. Suddenly you realize how close the wall really is, when you notice the speed you're approaching it. I've watched the clip a few times now. It's so emotionally powerful. You can see that he's so scared. And his wife. I just can't imagine what it's like for the wife. She's watching her husband die. But you can see her support, until the very end. She lets him know that she is there for him. It'll be interesting to see how I make this work. I need to find the best parts of the clip first, to make sure I get the right message. Then I'll be able to connect the two.