Unhoused people are more likely to die in hospitals or on the streets.

Death data in the US is fragmented, incomplete and inconsistent. The consequences of undercounted deaths and lack of real-time tracking continue to be felt with each new public health crisis.

COVID-19 highlighted the need to plan for medical emergencies, but most people still avoid the issue.

Ethical and legal issues around death in the digital age are thorny enough dealing with social media accounts. AI puts the notion of a digital afterlife into overdrive.

A clinical psychologist offers research-backed ways to work through grief and support grieving friends and family members during the holidays.

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.

The first wind phone appeared in Japan in 2010, and the concept has since spread around the world.

Given the right conditions, certain types of cells are able to self-assemble into new lifeforms after the organism they were once part of has died.

An accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions, molecular biology can provide critical information where the naked eye cannot.