Cancer treatments have evolved, improving survival rates and quality of life, challenging the notion of cancer as a death sentence. Media and fundraising often portray cancer fatalistically, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

I am living with stage four brain cancer which, as you might guess, means I have limited time left. This particularly relentless disease has taken many things from me — and will ultimately take my ...

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 ...

Readers respond to Sarah Wildman’s essay about her daughter’s lessons in facing mortality. To the Editor: Re “If My Dying Daughter Could Face Her Mortality, Why Couldn’t We?,” by Sarah Wildman ...

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 ...