Ram Dass is often in so much pain,” reports his longtime friend and coauthor, Mirabai Bush. “But he believes that nobody dies a moment before they should, a moment too soon or too late—that you have karma to fulfill. For Ram Dass, that means continuing to teach as he goes through the pain and discomfort and learns from it himself.” We spoke with Bush about the liberating conversations that formed their new book, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. …