A new urban-rural divide in American death
USA – An urban-rural mortality gap emerges among whites as risky behaviors work to defy modern trends.
USA – An urban-rural mortality gap emerges among whites as risky behaviors work to defy modern trends.
USA – A woman is suing Alabama for right to sell ‘green’ caskets. Only funeral directors can legally do this.
USA – Most people avoid the topics of aging and dying like the plague. Erica Hollack, author of “Live Well, Die Well,”
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears,
USA – Thinking about death isn’t doing the annuity industry any favors, but it could be the missing piece of a
USA – I was working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as a medical resident when I learned that my 89-year-old
There is an unspoken dark side of modern medicine–keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones.
USA – Arizona funeral homes say the cost of cremation could soon spike because of a bill making its way through
