Death touches everyone – in the game of life, it’s undefeated. If you’re lucky, you get to live a lot of your life before it touches you, but it comes, and it never stops coming until you’re the one ...

Visiting writer William Redfield and Aspen resident Heather Vesey will host a daylong seminar at the Aspen Chapel on Saturday ...

Jersey's parliament, the States Assembly, has just passed its assisted dying bill after a final debate. This will allow ...

Jersey's decision to allow assisted dying has stirred powerful emotions across the island. In the shadow of Mont Orgueil Castle, which has overlooked Jersey's east coast for most of the 800 years it ...

Death may be a taboo topic at the dinner table, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Sure, death is terrifying, but it’s something that happens to everyone. We might be better off acknowledging it with ...

Just over two months ago, very early on the morning of my sister’s 51st birthday, she passed away from a sudden heart attack. No warning. No goodbye. Just gone. One moment she was here. The next, she ...

A skeleton doll and funeral flag adorn an information table at the Cleveland Death Society's monthly meeting at B-Side Lounge in Cleveland Heights. It’s a weeknight at the B-Side Lounge in Cleveland ...

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. — Lisa Evers Patterson walks the Gulf beaches near her Englewood, Florida home, relishing life, but she knows a lot about death. In her words, "death became my life's work." As a ...

Inspired by the need to bring advocacy and comfort to those who are dying, a group of local women have trained to become end-of-life doulas and formed a business to offer comfort and support during ...

A while back, I posted a piece discussing research on people’s thoughts and feelings about death and dying, and I was interviewed for a magazine. Here is the transcript of the interview. First of all, ...

When we speak in theological terms about a cataclysmic event in our lives, we might turn to the language of apocalypse, that particular kind of unveiling that manifests an overwhelming awareness of a ...