A new gathering brings discussions about death out of formal settings and in to happy hour.

Ad exec Kris Saim wrote letters to people he has known throughout his life and read them aloud to those people in intimate ...

Death is the one appointment we all must keep, and how we face it defines how we live. Here in the Napa Valley, "Death Cafes" are inviting locals to pull up a chair and discover that dying is simply ...

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 ...

It was raining on the day that I walked to the Death Café. I sheltered beneath a red umbrella and skirted puddles on the sidewalk. The low clouds made the world seem smaller, cozier. Thinking of death ...

Talking with a child when they lose a peer is very daunting. Asking them to think about this as a fact can feel cruel. It is ...

“Why do you think it’s funny?” I asked. “Well, funny the way music can be funny, I suppose,” he replied. “Music is funny?” “Not all music, Sam. But a scherzo is funny, I think it’s safe to say. They ...