I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (ed. Broadway Books, 2007) - ISBN: 9780307414090