Verse on the back of the tomb of Oscar Wilde.

The Long Life of the Dead

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 10, 2015

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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