While we don’t know if anything happens afterwards, we do know exactly what happens in the moments leading up the end. Dr ...

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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 ...

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About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be ...

Natalie Krawczyk describes herself as an optimistic person, someone who looks for the best in everyone and everything. She loves spending time with her kids and grandkids. Some of her favorite moments ...

“People are afraid to talk about death and dying under any circumstances,” said Michelle Surdoval Vanessa Etienne is a Staff Writer for PEOPLE on the Health team. She joined the brand in 2021.

When I tell people I’m a hospice physician, the most common response is something along the lines of, “That must be so meaningful—helping elderly people in their final moments.” I nod politely. But ...

D sits in a trailer on his land in Ninilchik on June 7, 2025. “C’mon chickens, here you go, there’s corn in this one,” D said as he scattered feed to the chickens on his land in Ninilchik, on the ...