How do you feel about the idea of dying? Is it something you think about often? Or does it make you feel anxious? If sex was a taboo in the 19th century, death is a taboo of the modern age. Most of us ...

The cemetery was very old, with looming concrete gravestones covered in green iridescent moss. Many of the names on the stones were so deeply weathered and worn that I couldn’t read who had been laid ...

Reading this article could temporarily change your politics, biases and decision-making – it might even make you want to be famous. Why? The very idea of death changes our thoughts in profound ways.

When asked by a disciple about death, Confucius replied: “We don’t even know about life. How can we know about death?” In the Katha Upanishad, the boy Nachiketas is granted a boon by Yama, the god of ...

Repeating one phrase to herself — “I may die today, I may die today” — is the first step in the unique mindfulness practice that Lina Bertucci, a 15-year student of Tibetan meditation in Manhattan, ...

We are alive, therefore we will die. This is the simplest, most obvious truth of our existence, and yet very few of us have really come to terms with it. The last teaching the Buddha gave before he ...