end of life

Finding meaning and reconciliation is essential to dying and living well.

Palliative care is a distinct medical specialty that helps seriously ill people live as well as possible for ...

When death draws near, planning your funeral and burial helps everyone grieve, connect, and say goodbye.

Up to 90 percent of patients with serious, life-limiting illnesses report never discussing their end-of-life wishes with their physicians.

New York has become the sixth U.S. state to legalize the composting of human bodies, also known as terramation or ...

Earlier this month, my husband picked up the phone and learned that his 92-year-old father had been taken ...

One of the most heartbreaking aspects of the COVID-19 physical distancing has been accounts of people dying alone in hospitals or ...

Long before she contracted COVID-19 at a Kirkland, Washington, nursing home, Barbara Dreyfuss made sure to document the ...

I would like to tell you an all-too-familiar story. It begins with a long-term care home resident, Laura, ...

NEW YORK—It was March 15, 2006, and Barbara Newman-Mannix's husband Jim had not been feeling well for three ...

At 87, Maxine Stanich cared more about improving the quality of her life than prolonging it. She suffered ...