Perspectives Spirituality and Dying “I don’t want to romanticize dying, but I do want to liberate it from the fears we foist upon it.”
Perspectives Holding Death Close “Holding death close serves as a continuous, gentle reminder that every moment I am alive is a ...
Perspectives What Would Spirituality Look Like if We Could Live Forever? Thanatology focuses on life extension, but what role would religion play in our lives if we no ...
Spiritual Practices Rethinking Burial: Burial Shrouds and More Ideas Burial shrouds offer a better way to tend to the dead, according to one shroud-maker.
Mental Wellness Complicated Grief: What Happens When You Can’t Go On Complicated grief is more than the intense, acute grief almost everyone experiences after ...
Relationships Father’s Final Words Not the Last Word Psychotherapist Kevin Anderson offers advice to S&H readers. “As professionally prepared as ...
Spiritual Practices A Letter-Writing Burn Ritual for Healing With this ritual, become an observer to your emotions surrounding loss, and release them into ...
Perspectives Dr. Bruce Greyson Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond What will you see on the precipice of death? Dr. Bruce Greyson explores what near-death ...
Mental Wellness Having Just the Right Amount of Death Awareness How much should we think about death? What’s too little or too much? “I try to stop figuring out ...
Living in the World Rabbi Steve Leder on The Beauty of What Remains After death, what remains? Rabbi Steve Leder discusses his book The Beauty of What Remains: How ...
Perspectives Visits From a Mystical Messenger The symbolic meanings of animals often vary from culture to culture. Different animals and their ...
Perspectives Podcast: Dr. Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying Anticipating our mortality via the lost Medieval practice of ars moriendi.
Perspectives Soul Companion: Journeying With Another At the End of Life “Many therapists work to help clients create a better life—a Soul Companion works with clients ... Sponsored
Living in the World Laced With Grace “I realized that avoiding death, so common in American culture, would not stop it. Instead, ...