"I think it's partly the power of the connection to the past that rituals established," says Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. "There is much we can learn from one another, but there are ways that some of these things I didn't even know as a physician."
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.