death

How you talk to people with drug addiction might save their life.

A definition of death is surprisingly malleable, leading to complications when it comes to organ donation.

If a doomsday asteroid is set to collide with Earth, you’re going to know about it – whether you want to or not.

You can become a tree or even the soil supporting it.

Thou cans’t not live on steak and avocados alone.

Towards the end of his life, Francisco Goya began painting terrifying scenes directly onto the walls of his house.

The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.

Military recruits are supposed to be assessed to see whether they’re fit for service. What happens when they’re not?

Dozens of mummified cats were dug up this week. This isn’t as shocking as you might think.

Only 46 monks have completed the seven-year marathon since 1885.

Really puts the whole “don’t give up until you’re dead” thing to shame.

Maybe we should stop worrying about what happens after we die, and make the best of what we have on earth right now.

If your dream vacation involves a luau, dark tourism probably isn’t for you.

Feeling the urge to scare yourself this Halloween? Here are seven important horror films you have to see.

The money will go to her foundation, but is the tour really in the ‘Back to Black’ chanteuse’s best interest?

We tend to treat death and dying as a somber and serious event, but what if it doesn’t have to be that way?

The five stages of psychogenic death — aka, “give-up-itis.”

Scientists have developed new ways of understanding how the biological forces of death drive important life processes.

After you die, some things in your body keep on ticking, this video reveals.

You are going to die. So am I. These are facts.

Soon, the line that divides the living from the dead might not be so clear.

There is no blueprint for how humans deal with grief and the death of a loved one. But Ariel Levy has some helpful insight as to how to begin the process.

A common belief that regulations are a burden on businesses is challenged by Maryn McKenna’s book Big Chicken. 

The “pseudo-science” of this remake barely registers a pulse.

French researchers recently roused a patient out of a vegetative state.   

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher and leading thinker in end-of-life care. This is what he’s learnt about appreciating life while you have it, and being truly present.

John Cleese was in super sarcastic form during his recent Reddit AMA.

Can you have hope in the face of death? For believers this is somewhat easier, but non-theists require a different set of philosophical tools.

America today has normalized crimes, both physical and spiritual, says Cornel West—and being indifferent to that is the worst of all evils.

If people who experience near-death experiences have less fear of death, could an out-of-body experience through virtual simulation lead to the same result?