Have you ever woken from a dream in which someone close to you had died, only to sit there in the quiet of the morning feeling unsettled, your mind replaying the images again and again? Dreams like ...

Imagine you knew you were dying soon. What would matter most to you? How would you change the way you spend your time? How would you reflect on your life? Whom would you want near? These are common ...

People rarely stay the same after a near-death experience. It's not only a medical close call, but something that affects you ...

Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her ...

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 ...

When I tell people I’m a hospice physician, the most common response is something along the lines of, “That must be so meaningful—helping elderly people in their final moments.” I nod politely. But ...

NEW YORK − When Susan Rahn dies, she wants a party. The 55-year-old grandmother from Webster, New York, has Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Rahn considers herself lucky for having lived far beyond ...

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous. Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, Calif.

Sedona had a keen sense of the theatrical, guiding her family dramas like a regal choreographer. She was also a woman of immense faith who would tell anyone who'd listen that it was God who had gotten ...