One night mitch albom, an award-winning sportswriter, radio talk-show host, television commentator and best-selling author, turned on nightline only to encounter his former college professor and mentor morrie schwartz. The three shows featuring morrie's softspoken reflections on his impending death generated a tremendous response, and galvanized in albom a kind of spiritual re-awakening that sent him to his old teacher's deathbed. Here is his story of the weekly times they spent together until the end.