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Medical aid in dying gave my sister a choice about how her life ended. 
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Facing terminal cancer, Annie Werner realised she didn’t want people saying ‘super nice’ things about her after she had died. She wanted to be there – so she held a living wake
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After Mike Horner died of a mysterious disease that dumbfounded doctors, his son, Nick, scaled Mount Everest to take the trip his father never did.
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U.S. law on determination of death needs refining, but how? Not behind closed doors.
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New book “Saved: Objects of the Dead” tells the stories behind dozens of possessions held onto by friends and relatives of the deceased, from a prosthetic leg to a metal colander.
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Two years after his 13-year-old child died needlessly in hospital, a father reflects on life without her
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As the writer’s sister was dying of ovarian cancer, the sadness was overwhelming. But there were moments of joy, too, and he’s holding onto them.
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The “I love you” declarations began when people started dying around me.
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Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end.
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Terminally-ill patients facing financial hardship allowed a photographer to record their final weeks.
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My father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s the year I turned 18. Like most women I know, caregiving has been woven into my working life, writes the 2023 Stella prize winner
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Readers discuss a doctor’s essay about patients being “ready” to die.
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Once our most intensive interventions end, we are left with this — a choice of tuna fish or chicken salad, or maybe some Oreos, brought up from the hospital basement.
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Casey McIntyre died from cancer on 14 November, but she devised a plan to cancel the medical debt of others as a parting gift
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In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let's face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching. Most powerfully, she encourages us to shift how we approach grief. "A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again," she says. "They're going to move forward. But that doesn't mean that they've moved on."
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Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory.
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There are three things I know I didn’t tell Dad enough before I accepted that he wasn’t getting better: I love you. I’m proud of you. I’m always thinking about you.
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Life is all about a series of moments, and I plan to spend as much remaining time as I can savoring each one.
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The reluctance to talk about suicide has many implications. Stigma also affects everything from how people grieve to how people help prevent it.
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For Margaret McNally, a chance encounter helped spark her realisation that during bereavement there is joy – and a life to live
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Anniversary feels wrong. But English doesn’t appear to offer much else.
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Francois Ozon’s latest film is based on the memoir of his frequent screenwriting collaborator, Emmanuèle Bernheim.
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