Tiffany Johnson, an Oak Park woman who helps the dying navigate the last months and weeks of life, has recently found herself ...

A California hospice nurse is pulling back the curtain on what people regret most in their final moments—and it’s a stark reminder to cherish life while you still can. Julie McFadden, a veteran nurse ...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...

In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...

Death is one of the most profound and inevitable events we experience as human beings. Despite its universality, much about death remains shrouded in mystery. However, recent scientific advances are ...

In the artist’s “The Dying World,” everything has a particular provenance and a special consequence, the didactics of which ...

A flair of energy in the brain in a dying patient who had “no blood pressure” or “heart rate” could be evidence of the “soul leaving the body” after death, according to an expert. Dr. Stuart Hameroff, ...

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When a loved one is dying, you want them to be comfortable and not in pain, but it can be difficult to tell what they are ...

Death anxiety, or thanatophobia, has been shown to play a prominent role in a wide range of psychological disorders. Although death anxiety is transdiagnostic (presents itself across a wide variety of ...

New York has recently joined a number of other U.S. states that have made assisted dying legal. The state's Senate approved a bill on Monday allowing constituents with terminal diagnoses to end their ...