In the final episode of the FX series Dying for Sex, a hospice nurse with an oddly comforting sense of enthusiasm explains to a patient what to expect as she dies. “Death is not a mystery. It is not a ...

When medical professionals note a patient’s temperature dropping in the final hours of life, they’re witnessing one of the most reliable biological signals of approaching death. This temperature ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

For centuries, humans have thought of death as a single, dramatic instant - the final heartbeat, the last breath, the moment when the light fades from the eyes. But modern science, ancient philosophy, ...

Death anxiety, or thanatophobia, has been shown to play a prominent role in a wide range of psychological disorders. Although death anxiety is transdiagnostic (presents itself across a wide variety of ...