I hoped a death meditation workshop would ease my fear of dying. And then something else happened. (Jeffrey Decoster/ For The Times) On a recent Saturday night, the scene was serene inside Tac-tile ...

In December 2022, musician Eden Rayz received a message from her friend Roy Hawes about a defunct pipe organ at Mount Auburn Cemetery that was being decommissioned and needed to be picked up, or it ...

What’s your relationship with death? Many of us typically avoid thinking about it, that’s until someone we love deeply dies, or we’re given a stark reminder about our mortality, through something like ...

Repeating one phrase to herself — “I may die today, I may die today” — is the first step in the unique mindfulness practice that Lina Bertucci, a 15-year student of Tibetan meditation in Manhattan, ...

New Year's resolution culture is extremely weird and whimsical. The idea that somehow you should become a totally different person next year than you were last year feels like an insidious marketing ...

An "emergency death meditation" is a psychic technique performed by a religious adept who has yet to attain the desired level of perfection but faces imminent death. This essay examines a few Daoist ...

Death, or the passing of a loved one, is never easy. We all cope with loss in different ways – there is no timeline for how one grieves. For Marianne, the protagonist of The Medium, her life is ...

One million annual visitors flooded the Paris Morgue during the last few decades of the 19th century. Eager tourists jostled in front of a large glass viewing window to ogle anonymous corpses, and ...

Death is inevitable for all of us, but it’s often an experience we don’t stop and reflect on until it confronts us head on. Now a growing number of people are turning to the Buddhist practice of death ...