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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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