In a famous passage in his 1919 lecture on “Science as a Vocation,” Max Weber explores the meaning of death in modernity. He contrasts the lives of people in traditional, agrarian societies, ...

It was published in 1993 and sold more than a million copies in Japan. The Complete Manual of Suicide by Wataru Tsurumi explained in graphic detail how to complete your suicide effectively. The book ...

SIONY, 72, suffered from Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) post-vaccination during the Covid-19 pandemic. GBS is an ascending paralysis that could be fatal if it reaches the respiratory muscles. She was ...

Many of the people working to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act have argued that the brain-based definition of death should be maintained because whole-brain death is the death of a human ...

Death is an uncomfortable topic of conversation at best and taboo at worst. If we are really honest with ourselves, there isn’t much certainty in life; we just don’t know what the future holds, and ...

A recent and highly disturbing New York Times article promoting the idea that doctors should expand the definition of death in order to harvest more organs is stirring up disgust and debate about ...

Life is short. As Samuel Beckett wrote in Waiting for Godot: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” The best remedy is to resolve to make life ...