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Palliative care and hospice professionals discuss what the process is like — and their insights may challenge what you think ...

Waking up from a dream about someone dying can leave you feeling shaken and confused. Your heart might race, and you may wonder if the dream is a warning or prediction of something terrible. The good ...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a ...

Liz Dunnebacke isn’t dying, but for a recent end-of-life care workshop in New Orleans, she pretended to be. Dunnebacke lay still atop a folding table that was dressed as a bed, complaining that her ...

Imagine you knew you were dying soon. What would matter most to you? How would you change the way you spend your time? How would you reflect on your life? Whom would you want near? These are common ...

For a while, walking the dog felt hazardous. Earl Vickers was accustomed to taking Molly, his shepherd-boxer-something-else mix, for strolls on the beach or around his neighborhood in Seaside, ...