Talking about death can be tough, writing down those thoughts even tougher. Robin Simonton's letter about death starts simply, “I don't do death.” It's an odd way to start a letter written to no one ...

Before dying or almost dying, the conventional anecdote is that people see a flashback or a white light and have an out-of-body experience. But Barbara Olson, a retired social worker, saw darkness and ...

In December 2022, musician Eden Rayz received a message from her friend Roy Hawes about a defunct pipe organ at Mount Auburn Cemetery that was being decommissioned and needed to be picked up, or it ...

MILLS RIVER – During a burial, Caroline Yongue breathes in suffering. Yongue is the spiritual director at Carolina Memorial Sanctuary, a conservation and green cemetery in Mills River, south of ...

Every Saturday at Congressional Cemetery, Laura Lyster-Mensh uses death to remind people how to live. She’s a death doula, and recently started a class called Death Doula Days at Congressional ...

A group of people gathered at Congressional Cemetery in D.C. on Saturday morning for an unusual reason: to practice dying. One by one, participants reclined on a makeshift bed, as Threshold Choir — a ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Ester Rabinovici “I dare ...

Outside a hospital in medieval Germany, people lovingly buried their deceased, sometimes placing “death crowns” in the grave. But as the centuries passed, the cemetery fell into obscurity. It was ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A man was found shot to death in a Pittsburgh-area cemetery on Monday morning. Allegheny County police said a 911 call about a man shot in the McKeesport and Versailles Cemetery ...