In the old days you relied more on clergy or your family because the doctor wasn't very helpful. Well in today's world we expect the doctor to be much closer to clergy actually have a direct line to God and prolong my life with one more pill One more device attached to me one more treatment. The challenge of course is that the words don't always match the actions so CPR do you want us to do? "CPR is most often not successful soul stop right across the board"
Physician and author Lydia Dugdale wants to teach us a better way to die. She argues that this will help us find a better way to live. Listen as she discusses her book, The Lost Art of Dying, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.