The national monument had been a source of inspiration over the years. After I lost my father, it called to me more urgently than ever. I sat on the rim of Arch Canyon, a 1,000-foot-deep crevice in ...

For generations, medicine treated death as a clean line: the instant the heart stops, the person is gone. A wave of new research is dismantling that certainty, revealing a messy, lingering borderland ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue to function even after the organism they originated from is deceased, ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has been described as “profound psychological events with ...

You've heard of birth doulas, the caring professionals that support people during childbirth. The role of doula goes further than the first day of life, though. Diane Button is a death doula, a ...