Recently, we wrote about what the actively dying phase looks like, which occurs during the last phase of life. This was thanks to the help of Hospice Nurse Julie, aka @hospicenursejulie, who educates ...

Tiffany Johnson, an Oak Park woman who helps the dying navigate the last months and weeks of life, has recently found herself ...

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 ...

Experts have called for a fundamental re-assessment of dying in a world where public attitudes to death and grieving, and access to end-of-life healthcare have become "unbalanced". Although many ...

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

The movement to legalize assisted death — also referred to as medical-aid-in-dying, physician-assisted death or physician-assisted suicide — has been around in the United States for more than 40 years ...

Susan Srigley is a palliative care volunteer with the Near North Palliative Care Network. There is truth to these claims. Both as a person who has taught courses on death, dying, and spirituality for ...

I have always been involved with death and dying in one way or another. Throughout my life I have spent years working as a nurse, funeral director and celebrant, so I have always been around people ...

"Mami, are we going to die?" my 4-year-old asked during our afternoon walk yesterday. My kids talk a lot about death and dying, so I didn’t pay much attention to his question. I offered some ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gender and generational balance - in countries, companies & couples. Assisted dying is controversial, the national approaches to ...