J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death.

The U.S. carried out 47 executions in 2025—the highest total in years—despite falling public support, fewer death sentences, and growing evidence of racial bias, wrongful convictions, and political abuse of capital punishment.

Not everyone is comfortable talking about death, but experts say that making end-of-life arrangements can avoid heartache, guesswork and stress. (Getty Creative) Death, alas, comes for us all. So why do so many of us avoid discussing it? As USA Today ...

Death positivity involves acknowledging death as simply the final phase of life. It emphasizes open discussions around death and education on the options, rights, and choices surrounding it. Share on Pinterest Illustration by Brittany England Death can be ...

More than 3 million deaths are reported to the Social Security Administration each year. Among them, a small portion — less than 10,000 — are erroneous and need to be corrected, according to the agency. "Our records are highly accurate," the SSA stated ...

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after giving birth herself, she was dead.

Opponents of the death penalty turned out in big numbers in Concord again Thursday to speak against legislation to bring capital punishment back to New Hampshire.

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was effectively a cosmic "death by a thousand cuts."