Stemming from the Greek term ‘δούλα’, meaning ‘female servant’, doulas serve as community helpers in liminal periods, most ...

A skeleton doll and funeral flag adorn an information table at the Cleveland Death Society's monthly meeting at B-Side Lounge in Cleveland Heights. It’s a weeknight at the B-Side Lounge in Cleveland ...

A HOSPICE charity is encouraging people to talk openly about death and dying to foster understanding and support ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mattatuck Museum, Riverside Cemetery, and the Connecticut Death Collective will host what it calls the region's first Death & ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Tawnya Healy, 56, recalls the moment she realized her calling was to sit beside the dying ...

TO HEAR FRANCESCA ARNOLDY TELL IT, birth and death have striking similarities. A community doula and death literacy educator ...

The one big thing that people have in common is that we all will die, and we likely will experience the death of someone we love, too. And yet despite this shared future, death can be hard to talk ...

Spooky decorations of ghosts and skeletons will soon be returning to people’s doorsteps ahead of Halloween – but year-round, I am thinking about literary representations of death and dying. I am not ...

When it comes to death and dying, most people tend to think of it as an abrupt change from one state to another, but that's ...

Death may be a taboo topic at the dinner table, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Sure, death is terrifying, but it’s something that happens to everyone. We might be better off acknowledging it with ...