In most western societies, death has always been the church’s job. Nearly everyone wanted last rites, deathbed prayers and a ...

For centuries, humans have thought of death as a single, dramatic instant - the final heartbeat, the last breath, the moment when the light fades from the eyes. But modern science, ancient philosophy, ...

With hospitals and health systems looking for better ways to support patients with serious illness, a new resource is showing up as an addition to inpatient care teams: death doulas. Also known as end ...

Woody Allen famously quipped, “I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” There are many rational things to worry about when we contemplate our own death—perhaps foremost ...