After she dropped to her knees outside her home in Midlothian, Virginia, suffocating, after she was lifted into the ambulance and told herself, “I can’t die this way,” and after emergency workers at ...

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 ...

President Biden announced on Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates on federal death row. The men will continue to serve life imprisonment without the possibility of parole ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am asked all the time why in the world I would do something as difficult as working for hospice. People often ask, “Isn’t it so depressing?” It’s sad sometimes, yes. There’s really no way around ...

Water is getting punk-rock edit, thanks one viral brand. While some may argue that the market is, ahem, oversaturated, Liquid Death manages to stand out. The metal (in material and aesthetic) cans of ...

As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life and, when the time comes, to let go. She says that while we're conditioned to fear death, thinking and talking about it is ...