NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Vanessa Rodriguez is no stranger to talking about death. As a palliative care doctor at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, she works with families of patients at the ends of their ...

Whether we like it or not one of the only sure fire things in life is that we are all going die. It is one of the subjects that we in the West are discomforted by, embarrassed about and that many of ...

Every now and again, my 3-year-old daughter asks me how old I am. “Forty-three,” I say, smiling, already anticipating her next question. “Is that old?” I know why she asks. My daughter has come to ...

“About Face” is a column about how someone changed their mind. Ten years ago, a bold pink sign went up inside my mother’s garage: In Case of Emergency Do Not Resuscitate. Five years later, she put ...

The death of a loved one is the most difficult life event that many children ever experience. A death due to suicide can be especially hard to face. Parents and caregivers may feel overwhelmed as they ...

Death is a guarantee for everyone, so why do people shy away from talking about it and using words like death and dying? The Gentle Passage Doula Collective is an organization that supports and trains ...

From end-of-life care to burials and beyond, we answer your questions on mortality. By Amanda Schupak Illustrations by Xiao Hua Yang We are all going to die. Yet this inescapable fact often goes ...

Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, is offering a webinar titled “How to Talk to Kids about Death and Dying” on Thursday, March 13 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The webinar aims to equip adults with the ...