Death is usually marked when the heart stops and a person is no longer breathing, but there are usually far more signs that ...

At the edge of death, some people wake into sudden clarity. Terminal lucidity is one of the mind’s most baffling mysteries.

The hero is dying, yet they miraculously muster up the energy to utter something profound, some last-minute understanding of ...

Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think ...

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 ...

For many, voluntary assisted dying has come to symbolise control over how life ends. Yet dying well isn't just about those ...

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering ...

As families fracture, people are living longer and are more likely to find themselves without close relatives or friends at ...

Uruguay legalized euthanasia after Senate approved the Dignified Death bill. The law recognizes the "right to experience the ...