It’s the sound no one warns you about – but once you hear it, you never forget it. Known as the “death rattle,” the sound is a “biological lullaby” – a sign that within 23 hours, the body will fall ...

As long as we were born, we will die. That fact doesn’t make it easy to navigate a conversation about death, especially when ...

The dictionary meanings of “death” goes like this: permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms, etc.

For many people, death is an uncomfortable and anxiety-provoking topic. Conversations about dying may evoke fear, sadness, grief, and uncertainty. In some cultural and religious traditions, speaking ...

Most people don’t want to openly talk about dying or death, but life has a 100% mortality rate and we’ll all inevitably have some version of a funeral. Given the inevitability of death, we all have ...

In a new book, The Good Death, former hospice nurse Suzanne O’Brien shares practical wisdom and planning tips as a beacon of hope and support. Until about 100 years ago, death was revered as a natural ...

Life after death. It's one of the oldest questions in human history, one that’s inspired everything from ancient texts to the most cutting-edge scientific research. But somehow, in all the searching, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - You may be familiar with the term doula from the childbirth process. Some parents choose to use birthing doulas when it’s time to bring a new life into the world. But more ...

Ray and Angie Ketchum met while working — he as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service in Muscatine, and she as a nurse in an assisted living facility — and dated for three years before ...

Older people with less wealth showed a higher burden of symptoms when they approached the end of their lives compared with those who had more wealth, a study found. The report was published in JAMA ...