J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...

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 ...

Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think about dying.

Death is one of the most profound and inevitable events we experience as human beings. Despite its universality, much about death remains shrouded in mystery. However, recent scientific advances are ...

Much of my clinical practice was with individuals who had brain tumors and terminal neurological diseases. While I initially feared what it would be like to work with my patients during this phase of ...

“Death is a part of life, death is a part of life, death is a part of life.” That was the mantra that pounded in my brain as I drove to New York City, boarded a flight to Zurich with my sister Nancy ...