When my father died, the nurses left us alone at that moment. And then they came back in and they tidied him up. It was really a beautiful thing. I want to say one more thing about rituals not relate to your book. You can react to it anyway you want but there's so many rituals I have total disdain for.
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.