A lot of it, Doran says, comes down to preparation — death is coming for all of us, so don’t let it take you by surprise.

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 ...

Hospice experts describe a distinctive sound, known as the death rattle, that often signals a person is within a day of dying ...

Extraordinary things happen in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The sick rise from bed with new hearts and lungs. Machines valiantly take over for faltering ...

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 ...

How you approach end-of-life care for yourself or a loved one is a personal and important decision. You may consider hospice care, a death doula, or both to guide you during this time. Here’s what ...

From today Canberrans like Gail Ford will be able to apply for the ACT's new voluntary assisted dying scheme, which its ...

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 ...

Assisted dying will probably be funded by the NHS, a Labour minister has admitted. Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, said ...