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, ...

While death, dying and bereavement are universal life events, the social conditions under which death takes place are fundamental in shaping how it is experienced by the individual. A new book "Death, ...

Source: Gleive Marcio Rodrigues de Souza/Pexels. I've long been interested in what nonhuman animals (animals) know and feel about death and dying including if they know when others are dying. 1 I'm ...

Doctors encounter death and dying significantly more than most people. It’s the price of saving lives and helping people. Medical students in the U.S., however, receive little or no formal training in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It was just after this year's national Day of the Dead in Mexico—when I ...

More than 90 percent of Americans believe that we should be able to talk about death and dying, according to a recent poll. But only 27 percent were comfortable doing it, and 31 percent were uneasy ...

Spooky decorations of ghosts and skeletons will soon be returning to people’s doorsteps ahead of Halloween – but year-round, I am thinking about literary representations of death and dying. I am not ...

Death doulas show end-of-life care through a different lens Death doulas across Iowa City are working to bring community back into end-of-life care, hoping to open up the conversation around death and ...

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

In a recent episode of the popular HBO Max medical drama “The Pitt,” an emergency department nurse moonlights as a death doula for a woman with terminal cancer. While birth doulas have become a ...

The movement to legalize assisted death — also referred to as medical-aid-in-dying, physician-assisted death or physician-assisted suicide — has been around in the United States for more than 40 years ...

Death can be an uncomfortable and scary topic. But J.S. Park, a hospital chaplain and author of As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve, says talking about it can help us prepare for and process ...