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 ...

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 ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered a previously unknown way viruses could spread around the body, potentially ...

Even in death, cells leave a trace. Scientists have discovered a microscopic “Footprint of Death” that not only helps the ...

In healthcare, death is often seen as a failure, a sign that treatment didn’t work. But death is inevitable, and for some, it occurs within the walls of long-term care facilities. Nurses are expected ...

That’s where a death doula steps in. In those quiet, often fearful moments, their presence offers something profoundly simple ...

For migrants, the loss of a loved one in another country is a uniquely distressing experience, shaped by the heartbreak of distance, the stress of international travel and the bureaucratic ...

Death anxiety, or thanatophobia, has been shown to play a prominent role in a wide range of psychological disorders. Although death anxiety is transdiagnostic (presents itself across a wide variety of ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered a previously unknown way viruses could spread around the body, potentially ...