Hospitals and Healthcare

Being aware of terminal lucidity can help loved ones understand it is part of the dying process.

An 18-year-old taken to Christchurch Hospital ED in distress was accused by a crisis resolution worker of acting depressed and suicidal to upset hi

I have received many lovely messages in the weeks since my dad died – including one that will always stay with me, writes Adrian Chiles

Dr. Bob Ross cares for the aging residents of Ortonville, Minn, even as he wonders whether he, and the presidential candidates, are up to all their tasks.

Not everyone has moments of clarity when they find out they are dying. My wife did.

The art of developing a healthy relationship with our own mortality lies in neither avoiding the reality of suffering nor obsessing over it

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People with secondary breast cancer view photos of themselves at events they may not live to see.

I am shocked at how shocked I am. Why are we so unprepared when the inevitable comes to pass, asks Adrian Chiles

My daughter told us to look out for her after she was gone, and sometimes we find her.

A social worker explains ‘living loss’ and provides five ways for clinicians to help patients, and their families, acknowledge and move through their grief.

There are many social assumptions about how to best ‘get through’ grief. We interview 95 people about their experiences of loss and found we need to rethink what grief looks and feels like.

To celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year, Florence Le's family picked her up from the mental health facility she was staying. Two days later, the mother and piano teacher died by suicide inside Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.

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After a decision to spare her further interventions, she lives a full two months more – and teaches us a few things along the way

Must grief for the climate diminish you, or can it do the opposite?

Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences

Princess Catherine has announced her cancer diagnosis. So how should adults break news of their own cancer diagnosis to children?

Then I talked to some end-of-life experts. Here’s what I found out.

On my to-do list sits one job that’s been there for months and hasn’t been ticked off.

Understanding how loss affects our brain and body can help us realize that healing from a loss takes time, and we need to be gentle during the grieving process.

Grief is raw, complex, often fraught — and "moving on" from a loss is rarely straightforward or linear.