Death is a term we are all familiar with, and yet, what is death? Different people have different understandings of what death is and it...

We often fear what we don't understand. We fear what we have never experienced before. A common fear nearly all of us struggle with is...

In the universe, there are energies that attribute to life and death. These energies are the balance of the universe. These energies...

Do you avoid graveyards? Are you reluctant to attend funerals? Maybe you try not to think about death? Some people feel a sense of dread...

Marvin is 55 years old and he has a brain tumour. He is getting physically weaker by the day and is now having difficulty in breathing....

D eath is a forever puzzle and fascinating topic in philosophy, religion and spiritual discussions. It might not be an exaggeration to...

Accepting death as an inevitability is easier than you may think. After all, who doesn't realize they are eventually going to die? The...

To minimize feelings of guilt and to help process loss, teachers may provide opportunities in the classroom setting for students to write...

Many st udents experience some type of loss in their lives. Loss is often associated with the death of a loved one, but ambiguous loss is...

for talking with children and young adults about the death of a fellow student, staff member, teacher, family member, or friend will vary...

Most children experience the death of a family member or friend by the time they complete hig h school; and one in 20 children face the...

Though the child mortality rate — the number of children who die in a given year — has fallen dramatically over time, more than half of...

I am a medical student in my third year of studies. For medical students, this is the point at which, after two years of book learning,...

How do you explain to hundreds of grade school children that a beloved kindergarten teacher with breast cancer is dying?  That’s the...

Emotional distress is legally defined as "a highly unpleasant emotional reaction (as anguish, humiliation, or fury) which results from...

When a loved one dies, feelings of sadness and sorrow can seem overwhelming. You recognize that having those feelings is natural, but...

Agony and grief are more than just temporary feelings or passing emotions. Emotional agony tends to affect and change the whole person,...

Anguish is one of the most painful emotions felt by humans; the word means extreme pain or distress. It is one of those feelings that...

There is a lot of talk about grief these days in books and magazines about the right way to do it, or about how there is no right way....

Feeling down and blue while grieving is normal. There is no fixed timeline for grief to complete, but there is the danger that normal...