“When they need people the most, everyone is very uncomfortable,” death doula Diana Griebell said ...

In her small dorm room, junior Anne Kwok only has space for a handful of books. Almost all of them are from an IntroSem she took frosh year: “Perspectives on the Good Life.” The texts included Emily ...

Underlying it all are the unsaid words that will never be heard by the deceased, the amends that will never be made, the love that will never be expressed. Death, at least the kind that hits us mere ...

We rarely give much thought to our own death until it is upon us. Sigmund Freud said that we are incapable of imagining our own death. Even though we know and can imagine someone else's demise, we are ...

Is there such a thing as a good death? What might that mean to you? Dying pain-free, without distress or suffering? Dying suddenly in your sleep, or fully aware with enough time to say your goodbyes?

Anita Hannig is an expert on how we die. A medical and cultural anthropologist who studies life’s bookends — birth and death — she’s the author of “The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in ...

Perhaps you know that April is National Healthcare Decisions Month. There was a great column last week in The Sun written by the collective hospital teams from UF Health and the VA asking our ...

What is a “good” death? That’s up to each of us to decide for ourselves, said Anne Rossignol, former director of Mercy Hospice House. Rossignol said it’s a question more people should be asking ...

During the pandemic, experiences of death and dying were profoundly impacted, bringing into fresh relief the question of what makes a good death. In this post we draw attention to what it might mean ...