Take Jason, 80, married, with children and grandchildren. When he was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer and it was clear that he was in his final days of life, his whole family gathered in the ...

The one big thing that people have in common is that we all will die, and we likely will experience the death of someone we love, too. And yet despite this shared future, death can be hard to talk ...

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 ...

After witnessing countless deaths, both personally and professionally as a hospice physician, I have encountered nearly every misconception about this inevitable part of life. Death is often feared ...