Death

How a Common Death Ritual Made It Harder to Mourn the Loss of My Mother

By Sallie Tisdale

Why You Can Look Forward to Being Happier in Old Age

By Jeffrey Kluger

A Sudden Loss of Wealth Increases Your Chances of Death

By Alexandra Sifferlin

Mimi O’Donnell: Forgiveness Helped Me Heal After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death

By Mimi O'Donnell
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How to Become Less Afraid of Death

Death, in the view of many theorists, is a good thing, at least for a society that aspires to be creative. When you’re on the clock, you accomplish more. Cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, author of...

By Jeffrey Kluger

These Three Words Helped Me Understand My Father’s Death

I spoke them at his bedside

By Kelly Corrigan

Photographing the Dead

Photographing the Dead Jeffrey Silverthorne revisits a haunting series of photographs made at a Rhode Island state morgue in the 1970s By David Levi Strauss | Photographs by Jeffrey Silverthorne The photographs in Jeffrey Silverthorne’s...

More Americans Than Ever Are Choosing to Be Cremated

Cremation rate hit 50.1% in 2016

By Josh Sanburn

'Every Day Is Like a Week': Sheryl Sandberg on How to Recover When the Worst Happens

Use "the power of we," says the author of Lean In

By Diane Tsai and Belinda Luscombe

I Was My Mother's Drug Mule

Marijuana and health care laws failed her. So I broke them

By Annabelle Gurwitch

Sheryl Sandberg's New Mission: To Help People Through Grief and Adversity

After facing her own sudden loss, the tech titan wants to change how we talk about pain

By TIME Staff

We Should Educate Incarcerated Juveniles

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Eating More of This Will Make You Live Longer

Up to 7.8 million premature global deaths could be avoided

By Alexandra Sifferlin

An 8-Year-Old Has Died After Being Hit by a Falling Tombstone

The boy was attending a birthday party at a nearby church

By Maya Rhodan

D.C. Council Approves ‘Death With Dignity' Bill for Terminally Ill Patients

It's the 7th jurisdiction to authorize the controversial practice

By Josh Sanburn

30% of Cancer Deaths Are Due to Smoking

Smoking-related cancer death rates are highest in the South

By Mandy Oaklander

Rapper Shawty Lo Died in a Car Crash in Atlanta

Atlanta street rap lost an icon

By Daniel White

Husband in Real-Life 'Fault In Our Stars' Marriage Dies

Dalton Prager died over the weekend

By Maya Rhodan

Exercise May Lessen Some of the Bad Effects of Alcohol

A study hints that exercise may offset some of the negative health effects of drinking

By Alice Park

Inside One of Afghanistan's Largest Hospitals

"You don’t do this for the money."

By Rachel Lowry
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