A new study shows how thoughts about mortality shape travel decisions - and why where you live may influence how you cope.

“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” ― ...

One of the things that makes humans unique is our awareness of the inevitability of death. While many of us push this death awareness out of our minds in our daily lives, it is undeniable that 10 out ...

A qualitative analysis explored how patients with hematopoietic malignancies seek meaning-making through relationships with family and friends at the end of life.

Six Harvard professors in a variety of fields — from medicine and chemistry to economics and history — reflect on their mortality, their academic and personal lives, and the legacies they hope to ...