There are moments near the end of life that those in palliative care recognise instantly. Among them is a sound, unsettling to the ear but familiar to nurses and hospice workers, that quietly ...

We must respect human life from birth to natural death. That means more than contriving cumbersome laws to abet assisted ...

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 ...