Brooklyn Death Cafe

Greenpoint Yoga, 145 Java Street, Brooklyn

In a world where photos of corpses can circulate around the internet and cause distress to grieving families, does it make sense to formally ban anyone taking pictures of dead bodies?

During the mid-nineteenth century in Sweden hard sugar candies, typically in the form of a corpse and wrapped in black crepe paper with fringes became a popular funeral favor. Offered to funeral at...

An open discussion of a topic that nobody talks about

The Art of Dying V is a conference that brings together renowned thought-leaders, innovators, researchers and practitioners in the area of death and dying.

A very short history of death

"The AWARE study aims to objectively assess whether claims of NDEs or OBEs during resuscitation from cardiac arrest correspond with real or hallucinatory events."

Legislation to give terminally ill New Yorkers the choice to end their life under a doctor's care has been introduced in Albany.

More and more people are choosing to die at home, assisted by pain management and support programs.

I never met my grandmother. Her name was Len and she died before I was born. It had something to do with smoking.

"An Abandoned Factory, Detroit" by Phillip Levine