Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The one big thing that people have in common is that we all will die, and we likely will experience the death of someone we love, ...

Kimberly Wamba realized what she wanted to do with her life while watching members of her family die. She always had a desire to help people, a desire that started in childhood watching her ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Tawnya Healy, 56, recalls the moment she realized her calling was to sit beside the dying ...

One of the few guarantees in life is loss. The unmerciful realities of temporal existence and entropy make the pain of separation a sole constancy. Over the course of an average life, a person will ...

Natalie Krawczyk describes herself as an optimistic person, someone who looks for the best in everyone and everything. She loves spending time with her kids and grandkids. Some of her favorite moments ...

In our "death-phobic" society, few of us make the effort to prepare for death — but the ability to do so is a gift that no ...

The Orange County Deathworkers Alliance wants to chat about your inevitable demise. Yes, members say, they’re a blast at parties! The Alliance is not a grief support group exactly, but a collection of ...

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory, I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s ...