Five People You Meet In Heaven

What happens after death? I’m sure I’m not the only one who has thought about it. Author Mitch Albom has given us an interesting perspective on this question. In his book Five People You Meet in Heaven, Eddie, a war veteran who works at Ruby Pier as a maintenance man, passes away in the beginning. Therefore, the story starts at an ending. While tending to a broken ride, a cord snapping, causing the cart to drop and kill him. To him, it doesn’t feel as if he died. He wakes up with nothing around him, just an empty space. Instead of being in the form he passed away in, he was himself as a child. At this time, and four other instances throughout the story, he meets someone. The person he meets isn’t just anyone. Each one of them has a lesson to teach him about his life on earth. As he met and talked with each person, he understood more about the time he spent alive. Some of the people he knew, some he did not. They ranged from pier workers when he was a child to his deceased wife. His former captain from the army to the lady in which the pier was named after. After every person, he only had one question to ask; did he save the little girl who got in the way of the falling cart? Of course I can’t give away the ending. When my mom read the book, she claimed she was very disappointed with it. I had a different preference of the ending. I’m not able to give it away, since it would ruin it for anyone interested in reading it. Or if reading isn’t exactly your thing, it was made into a movie in 2004 starring Jon Voight as the main character.