His meatloaf pans, small and precise, defined the well-patrolled borders he’d refused to budge under his family’s failure to ...

I am responding to Anastasia Osling’s evocative and accurate piece on aging. The logical next step is to discuss dying. As a retired medical social worker of over thirty years, ...

A new book explains how facing mortality helps people figure out what matters most, providing life lessons for us all.

Doctors followed the standard steps after a patient’s death: they notified Hoover’s family and prepared him—an organ donor ...

Severely ill patients often intuitively sense their death. This may stem from disease and aging-related inflammation ...

Ellen Degeneres fought back tears as she delivered a tribute to Tayt Andersen, a frequent guest of her daytime talk show who charted his lifelong heart condition on his visits to see her. "We had a ...

In a world that celebrates beginnings, why do we shy away from the inevitable end? Funeral director Jake Futch reminds us to ...

You might think the most important lessons in life come in your twenties or thirties — but according to Diane Button, a death doula with nearly two decades of experience, the real revelations often ...