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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman died at the Burning Man arts festival over the weekend, authorities and the event organizers said. The circumstances around her death weren't immediately clear, but law enforcement has ...

The sun conure, also known as a sun parakeet, is a brightly colored and very noisy bird. Sun conures were once common in South America, but they are now considered endangered. Conures are part of a ...

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 ...