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 ...

Baptist Health Floyd launched the Three Wishes Project a few months ago as a way to ease the burden faced by patients and ...

A California hospice nurse is pulling back the curtain on what people regret most in their final moments—and it’s a stark reminder to cherish life while you still can. Julie McFadden, a veteran nurse ...

Caring for a parent who is dying can be emotionally taxing. There are many unknowns about the dying process, and chances are neither you nor your parent have all the answers you need. Depending on ...

When medical professionals note a patient’s temperature dropping in the final hours of life, they’re witnessing one of the most reliable biological signals of approaching death. This temperature ...

Death is something we all have in common. We will all experience the death of loved ones and someday somebody will experience our death. End-of-life doulas, or death doulas, want people to know they ...

Opponents of the proposed law for England and Wales say there should be further scrutiny before peers discuss the issue.

Terminally ill patients deserve to have the moral freedom to escape their suffering on their own timeline. As a professor, now retired, of Christian ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary, I read your ...

Science reveals the order in which senses fade before death. Hunger and thirst disappear first. Taste and smell follow, then ...

Moya Mc Allister / Used with permission. Dying Is Not Surrender The battle against death can be an admirable one—but only to a point. When the time comes, it’s often in our best interest to lay down ...

Final proposals have been published in Jersey that outline the framework to allow people who have a terminal illness to end ...