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 ...

You know the stories: a flash of light, a tunnel, maybe even a mysterious voice telling you it’s not your time. Near-death experiences have fascinated people for ...

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. Covid-19 fell out of the ...

Celebrity chef and Food Network star Anne Burrell's cause of death has been revealed. The 55-year-old TV personality was found dead June 17, and the Office of Chief Medical Examiner in New York City ...

Trigger warning: This article includes mention of suicide that readers may find disturbing. A cause of death for Jeff Baena, the indie writer/filmmaker known for Life After Beth and The Little Hours, ...

A new app called Death Clock predicts the date of its users’ deaths and offers tips on how to push that date back. Naturally, I had to try it myself. The questionnaire started with basics like age and ...

Chimpanzees are the closest relatives to humans sharing about 98% of their DNA composition with humans. Kibale National Park contains one of the loveliest and most varied tracts of tropical forest in ...

Social Security may provide a one-time $255 death benefit to your loved ones when you die. But that amount has not changed in 70 years. A new bill has been introduced in the Senate to raise that ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Thursday ...

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. However, the emergence of new multicellular life forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its annual list of causes of death in the U.S. The leading cause of death has changed in recent years. COVID-19 has plummeted to No.10 ...

When it comes time for us to make decisions about death, most of us – except for Gen Zers – want to be cremated rather than buried, a recent survey of U.S. adults shows. Members of the Gen Z ...