In most western societies, death has always been the church’s job. Nearly everyone wanted last rites, deathbed prayers and a ...

Nobody warns you that the most clarifying conversations of a person’s life happen in the last weeks of it. Not in the therapist’s office, not in a particularly honest argument, not on the long drive ...

I have a long-time friend who now is very old, homebound, and spends most of his time in bed. He probably has just months to live. Yet except for the times he’s in bad pain, he manages to be upbeat.

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

Throughout history, humans have supported one another during death. The idea of a death doula as a profession is newer. The Global Doula Project lists death doulas, or end-of-life doulas, as a service ...

Most people have a healthcare story. Maybe it was the surprise bill that arrived weeks after an appointment. Maybe it was discovering the same procedure could cost dramatically different amounts ...

What would attending your own wake be like? To say goodbye to the people in your life in person? What stories would you tell in your own eulogy? While still relatively uncommon, living wakes are an ...

Ms. Brosseau says mental illness has made her life unbearable. She wants a medically assisted death. Even her psychiatrists are split over whether she should have one. Ms. Brosseau says mental illness ...

Dear Eric: Having been involved in the caretaking of several friends or members of family who are in the process of dying, I found the letter from “Two Left Behind”, about two friends who were being ...

My sister died a few months ago. I didn’t announce it. I didn’t post about it. When I learned she was in hospice, I kept that information to myself. Also Read: I Lost My Sister To Addiction When She ...