Emotional repression—in most cases expressed as niceness—can also be found on exploring the lives of famous persons with ALS, from the physicist Stephen Hawking, the baseball great Gehrig, to Morrie Schwartz, the professor whose television appearances on Ted Koppel’s show made him a much-admired figure in the last months of his life and whose story and wisdom form the subject of the best-seller Tuesdays with Morrie. In
