EPISODE · Dec 11, 2015 · 33 MIN
The Long Life of the Dead
from Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show) · host WNYC
Caring for the dead, mourning the dead, and commemoration the dead, has always been an essential part of human civilization. For this week's Please Explain, we are talking to historian Thomas Laqueur, whose latest book, The Work of the Dead, exhaustively details why our treatment of death has always been such an important part of human life.
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