After years at the bedsides of the dying, Rabbi David Wolpe describes three kinds of dying. Some deny it to the end. Some confront it and are crushed. A rare few know, confront, and accept it. He and Hoover Visiting Fellow Russell Roberts discuss Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich on EconTalk.
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