The decision to enroll her father in hospice care came easily for Janet Abrahm, MD. Abrahm, a palliative care doctor and former oncologist, helped her father — an internist who died of prostate cancer ...

Google "death quotes" and you'll get hundreds of "inspirational" adages on death. Not even this grimmest of subjects escapes the reach of inspirational gurus. Their common take on death soon becomes ...

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Alua Arthur is a death doula — but don't wrinkle your nose. In her new book, "Briefly Perfectly Human," she says being mindful of mortality can make us more joyful, connected and present. When it ...

We live in a culture that treats death as a failure—something to be postponed, hidden, or avoided at all costs. Hospitals curtain it off. Language softens it. Families rarely speak about it. We behave ...

Mortality has always captured the human imagination. Art, philosophy, ceremony, comedy, tourism, religion, record-keeping, pop culture – it all contain traces of our fascination with the inevitable.