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

A hospice nurse says we shouldn’t fear death – and it is the most normal experience humans have. Penny Hawkins Smith, 62, has ...

Murray’s claim that terminal lucidity refutes materialism rests on a questionable presupposition. It assumes that, on a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

When medical professionals note a patient’s temperature dropping in the final hours of life, they’re witnessing one of the most reliable biological signals of approaching death. This temperature ...

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

Assisted dying should be a separate service if it is legalised and GPs must be able to opt-in rather than opt-out of ...