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Podcast: The Colin McEnroe Show
Episode: How should we treat the dead?
Description: This hour, we look at our cultural fascination with dead bodies. What do we owe the dead? What can the dead teach us? What does a body represent to you? We talk to a death investigator who observes what the dead can teach us about living, a poet / mortician, who laments our growing estrangement from our dead, and a reporter who has investigated the large — and legal — market for body parts. GUESTS: Barbara Butcher: A retired New York City death investigator and the author of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New Y...