Underlying it all are the unsaid words that will never be heard by the deceased, the amends that will never be made, the love that will never be expressed. Death, at least the kind that hits us mere ...

Lady Joan was in the last stages of pancreatic cancer and had only a short time to live. Sir Edward wasn’t terminally ill, ...

What is a “good” death? That’s up to each of us to decide for ourselves, said Anne Rossignol, former director of Mercy Hospice House. Rossignol said it’s a question more people should be asking ...

This is a guest column by Rachel Marie Stone, author of Eat with Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food (InterVarsity Press). My grandmother wanted to die for a long, long time before her death actually ...

In her small dorm room, junior Anne Kwok only has space for a handful of books. Almost all of them are from an IntroSem she took frosh year: “Perspectives on the Good Life.” The texts included Emily ...

Is there such a thing as a good death? What might that mean to you? Dying pain-free, without distress or suffering? Dying suddenly in your sleep, or fully aware with enough time to say your goodbyes?

It’s a lovely place to wait for death. The Houston Hospice occupies the Holcombe House, a handsome Tudor Revival structure on the eastern edge of the Texas Medical Center. The house was completed in ...

Virginia Chang’s first real exposure to death came in 2016, when she lost three family members in seven months—first her father, then her mother-in-law, then her mother. “I was wholly unprepared, ...

One day in 2009, Jane K. Callahan picked up the phone and learned that her mother was dying. Callahan, then 27, hadn’t spoken to her mother, whom she had a complicated relationship with, in two years.

We rarely give much thought to our own death until it is upon us. Sigmund Freud said that we are incapable of imagining our own death. Even though we know and can imagine someone else's demise, we are ...

During the pandemic, experiences of death and dying were profoundly impacted, bringing into fresh relief the question of what makes a good death. In this post we draw attention to what it might mean ...