Mitch Albom

Elderly amusement park maintenance worker Eddie dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart. In Heaven he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in his life, discovering with each what he was supposed to have learned and what his purpose on Earth was.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Lindsey Barnett

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. Life has to end" she said. "Love doesn't."

Stephanie 

Jenny

Bianca Miller 

Miyamoto Musashi

"You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.

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“People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.”

“That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.”

“It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn’t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

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